Thesaurus:prostitute
English
Synonyms
- abandons (UK, archaic, plural only)
- almah (Egypt)
- Bankside lady (UK, obsolete)
- bat (archaic)
- blouze (obsolete)
- blowen (obsolete)
- blowess (obsolete)
- blowsabella (obsolete)
- brass (Cockney rhyming slang)
- brass nail (Cockney rhyming slang)
- brasser (Ireland)
- broad (dated)
- chippy (US)
- coaster (dated)
- cockatrice (obsolete)
- Covent Garden nun (UK, archaic)
- dollymop (UK, dated)
- doxy (archaic)
- drab (archaic)
- escort (euphemistic)
- gamester (obsolete)
- gill (archaic)
- hackney (archaic)
- harlot (dated)
- Haymarket ware (UK, dated)
- hooker (US)
- jay (obsolete)
- laced mutton (obsolete)
- lady of leisure (euphemistic)
- lightskirt (dated)
- meat puppet (US)
- mob (obsolete)
- moll (Australia)
- moneyboy (China, Thailand)
- mort wap-apace (archaic cant)
- musk cat (obsolete)
- mutton (obsolete)
- nun (UK, archaic)
- nymph of darkness (obsolete)
- nymph of the pavé (obsolete)
- nymph of the pavement (obsolete)
- Paphian (literary)
- party girl (euphemistic)
- punk (historical)
- put (obsolete)
- prossie (UK)
- prostie (US)
- prosty (US)
- quail (obsolete)
- quean (archaic)
- rent boy (UK, Australia)
- scrubber (UK)
- skivvy (military, dated)
- slit (vulgar)
- stem siren (dated)
- stew (obsolete)
- strumpet (archaic)
- tart (UK)
- tib (obsolete)
- tom (UK)
- trug (obsolete)
- tweak (obsolete)
- wapping dell (obsolete, cant)
- wapping moll (obsolete, cant)
- wapping mort (obsolete, cant)
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Holonyms
Various
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- abbess (UK, archaic)
- Covent Garden abbess (UK, archaic)
- lady abbess (UK, archaic)
- —
- apple-squire (obsolete)
- ponce (UK)
- —
- bludge (Australia)
- forwhore (archaic)
- pimp out (vulgar)
- put on the red light (idiomatic)
- turn a trick (US)
- turn tricks (US)
- whore out (vulgar)
- work nights (euphemistic, idiomatic)
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See also
Further reading
- “prostitute” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “prostitute” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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