Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman prostitute.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A prostitute; a harlot; a bold, lascivious woman: also used adjectively.
- To make a strumpet of; bring to the condition of a strumpet.
- To call or treat as a strumpet; give an ill name to; slander seurrilously.
Wiktionary
- n. A female prostitute; a woman who is very sexually active.
- n. A female adulterer.
- n. A mistress.
- n. derogatory A trollop, a whore.
- v. obsolete, transitive To debauch.
- v. obsolete, transitive To dishonour with the reputation of being a strumpet; to belie; to slander.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A prostitute; a harlot.
- adj. Of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet.
- v. obsolete To debauch.
- v. To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a woman adulterer
Etymologies
- Middle English. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Your goddess History (whom your fathers called the strumpet Fortune).”
“They replied with coarse insults, calling her strumpet and cow-girl, and threatening to burn her when they caught her.”
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3
“The fellow went off, calling her strumpet, which only made her scream with laughter; then, turning to the Spaniard, she told him to make out his account directly.”
“Yet observe how mildly Christ tells her of it; he doth not call her strumpet, but tells her, He with whom thou livest is not thy husband: and then leaves it to her own conscience to say the rest.”
“She remarked about the patterns for little girls being "way out of line ... in the 'strumpet' category, and lacking in innocent sweetness for little girls.”
“I don't know if I'd have used the same words as Len though -- "strumpet" and "gigolo"?”
“I get huge numbers of hits from Arabic-speaking countries looking for "strumpet".”
“A strumpet. although, i have to say, "strumpet" is running a pretty close second. previous - next”
“She called the shawls her courtesan clothes because I blush to disclose that my dear Effie was what she called a strumpet:)) Her shawls had a life of their own when Effie twirled them:) Even til the day she died in her late 70s she flirted with any male who came within her view.”
“strumpet" and then he tops it off with "move your fanny toward me I'm not gonna bite.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘strumpet’.
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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scoundrels and bastards
already several of these lists, but I wanted my own
varlet, scoundrel, slubberdegullion, bastard, hooligan, boor, churl, thug, cad, ne'er-do-well, miscreant, minx and 85 more...
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October 2011
serendipity, grateful, irritable, punchy, twitchy, reverence, solitude, levity, nubble, sojourn, Eden, quesadilla and 19 more...
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Old
Old words or old spellings, or both.
fasickle, olde, goode, shoppe, towne, fantastick, poltroonery, strumpet, ear-rent, frog and toad, forgetfory, makar and 3 more...
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Words That Are Fun to Say.
error, acetylsalicylic acid, hemidemisemiquaver, misanthropic, cantankerous, thou, prolixity, wherefore, lozenge, fisticuffs, comparatively, strumpet and 2 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms
135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms =)
artless, baggage, barnacle, bawdy, beef-witted, bladder, boil-brained, bootless, brazen, cankerblossom, churlish, churrish and 123 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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tree's Words
aphasia, anhedonia, promontory, misandry, amanuensis, asymptote, penultimate, muslin, tundra, calico, kinaesthesia, rutabaga and 209 more...
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ADW2
nudnik, temper, intercalate, cleave, scowl, chapfallen, malapropos, disport, annals, paean, paradisiacal, whet and 362 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 850 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for strumpet.
bilby But a whippet plays faster. Jan 20, 2009
sionnach Guitar hero champion pooch; plays with great flourish. Jan 20, 2009
bilby There's quirky English movie titled Strumpet. Too bizarre for me to summarise here but worth seeing if you can find it. Nov 27, 2007
lostsoul It's useful as a cheeky term of endearment. Nov 20, 2007
sionnach There's a type of a bawd called a strumpet
Who - I'm told - can be played like a trumpet
But when you have paid
That streetwalking jade
Then, sir, you can like it or lump it! Oct 13, 2007
jennarenn I like the nickname Jenna, but have never used it. I may need to start. Thank you, seanahan. :) Aug 10, 2007
reesetee I still think it sounds like pastry.... Aug 9, 2007
seanahan No Jenna, I don't, I think I might have used it jokingly once. My comment was just imagining what it would be like if I could work it into conversations. Aug 9, 2007
uselessness Say it all nice and sugary and it sounds like an endearing pet name. "Hey Strumpet, how are you today?" or "my little strumpet." Aug 9, 2007
jennarenn You don't actually *use* this word, do you??? Aug 9, 2007
seanahan It's a good insult to use because the girl often doesn't know what you are calling her. Of course, just from the sound and tone you say it with, they are often able to figure it out. Aug 8, 2007
reesetee This word always makes me think of pastry. ;-) Aug 8, 2007