ˈtallywoman
[f. tally n.1 + woman.]
a. A woman who sells goods on credit: cf. tallyman 1. b. slang. A woman who ‘lives tally’ with a man (see tally n.1 4 b): correlative to tallyman 3.
| 1727 Gay Begg. Op. iii. v, Mrs. Diana Trapes, the Tally-Woman. 1890 Leeds Mercury 11 Aug., in N. & Q. 7th Ser. X. 229/1, I thought she was his tally-woman lately. 1890 [see tallyman 3]. 1894 Daily Chron. 11 June (Funk), Her dress she gets by paying a small weekly sum of 2d. or 3d. to what is called a ‘tallyman’ or ‘tallywoman’. |