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1. Awoman viewed merely as a sex-object ; one of many words typical of the sexual objectification of women. Defined by Captain Francis Grose in Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) as: ' A wench . A prime-article . A handsome wench . She's a prime-article (Whip slang.) She's a devilish good piece , a hell of a goer .'

2. By extension, a woman regarded as having loose morals. See playgirl for synonyms.