strumpet

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  1. noun A woman prostitute.

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  • The witnesses who appeared against him were proved to be persons of such characters as did not entitle them to much credit; a common strumpet, a woman by whom such wretches were entertained, and a man by whom they were supported. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), Vol. V.
  • I could write a brand new post about the killers of that day or their victims or the selfish, wicked people who could not even let the dust settle in Manhattan before they started scolding us for wearing that short skirt and sashaying about like a strumpet, but it would be pretty much like what I've written every other year. —  The Sundries Shack
  • DANIELLE Lloyd is the Star's strumpet-in-residence. —  Anorak News
  • To them "woman" = "hairy legged lesbian clinging bitterly to her cats" or "Pop-strumpet who quit wearing panties when she heard that California law requires public utilities to be open for inspection at al times" —  Latest Articles
  • And we will watch for him tripping up, or his lover being a strumpet or telling her story to the press. —  Anorak News
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  1. Middle English.

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  1. from Middle English strumpet, strompet, strumpett; origin unknown; perhaps orig. *stropete or *strupete, from Old French *strupete, vernacularly *strupee, from Latin stuprata, feminine past participle of stuprare, debauch; cf. Old French strupe, stupre, debauchery, concubinage, from Latin stuprum, debauchery, later stuprrare (later Italian strupare, stuprare = Spanish estrupar = Spanish Portuguese estuprar), debauch; cf. Greek στυφείξειν, maltreat (see stuprum, stuprate). Cf. Irish Gaelic striopach, strumpet. The English dial. strum, strumpet, is prob. an abbreviation of strumpet.
  2. from strumpet, n.
 

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