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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A woman prostitute.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A fellow; a varlet; a male servant: often used opprobriously. Compare varlet.
  2. n. A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman.
  3. Pertaining to or like a harlot; wanton; lewd; low; base.
  4. To practise lewdness with harlots or as a harlot.

Wiktionary

  1. n. derogatory a female prostitute
  2. v. To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth.
  2. n. obsolete A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal.
  3. n. A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a common woman; a strumpet.
  4. adj. Wanton; lewd; low; base.
  5. v. To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, vagabond, rogue, lecher, harlot, from Old French arlot, herlot, vagabond. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “But as the harlot is mystical (the whole faithless Church), the burning may be mainly mystical, symbolizing utter destruction and removal.”

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  • “As iniquity in the harlot is a leaven working in "mystery," and therefore called”

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  • “The term harlot was applied indiscriminately to both sexes.] [Footnote 115: Names of spirits, like Robin Goodfellow in England, and”

    English Satires

  • “Enkidu is civilized by a harlot from the temple of the goddess Inanna.”

    Book Review: Gilgamesh the King

  • “You will be tempted to think of books as objects, not to be read, but to be possessed for show, and when that happens, you are easy prey to those booksellers who deal in harlot volumes, tricked out in pretty skins (which will not last becasue the leather is not well prepared) and bedizened with gold paint that used to be daubed on steam-heating coils.”

    Two Links and a Quote « So Many Books

  • “If it [calling a woman a harlot] is directed to a specific person and especially in the presence of children or somebody's new husband, anybody could expect that that would elicit a violent response and that very likely would be considered fighting words under established constitutional doctrine," said Anderson, a former civil-rights attorney ...”

    Archive 2004-02-01

  • ““Are you referring to the word harlot?” muttered the shopkeeper, flushing crimson and blinking.”

    The Schoolmistress and other stories

  • “ARBITER: ... particularly in one that, I never record Prince Philip ever using the word harlot or trollop in any of the correspondence.”

    CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2003

  • “This Prince was the son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, by one of his mistresses called Harlotte, from whom some think the word harlot is derived; however, as this amour seems odd, we shall entertain the reader with an account of it.”

    A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses

  • “In this verse the harlot is presented before us ripe for judgment.”

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • hernesheir A scoundrel; a worthless fellow. As one denoting low rank; a boor. --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841. Jun 25, 2011

  • bilby Asa, you're tearing up the Wordie streets today! Sep 10, 2008

  • asativum Somewhere out there, there's a motorcycle-riding prostitute with the family name of Davidson... Sep 10, 2008

  • Prolagus See also independent. Sep 10, 2008

  • asativum "'Go to Uruk, find Gilgamesh, extol the strength of this wild man. Ask him to give you a harlot, a wanton from the temple of love; return with her, and let her woman's power overpower this man...'" -- The Coming of Enkidu, from The Epic of Gilgamesh Jun 17, 2008

  • mager Harlot in SF is fun May 3, 2008

  • seanahan I send a heart to all my dearies
    When your life is so, so dreary
    Dream
    I'm rumored to the straight and narrow
    While the harlots of my perils
    Scream
    Aug 19, 2007

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