And if you look at "turn" in the older meaning of "service" ("a good turn"), I think I can defend "trick" C19th. @LAGilman
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@matociquala My hypothesis of derivation from "meretrix" is based on a completely imagined intermediary stage of "turning 'trix", FWIW.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@chaosprime West did use a bunch of French slang. But "trix" is the latinate means of feminizing anything.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@matociquala *nodnod* Wouldn't particularly stop anybody from abbreviating meretrix to it, with the stress pattern of the word as it is.
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