strumpet
English
WOTD – 19 August 2015
Etymology
From Middle English strumpet, strompet, strumpett. Further origin uncertain; possibly from Middle Dutch strompen (“to stalk”) or strompe (“stocking”); or Late Latin stuprum (“violation”) or stuprare (“to violate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstɹʌm.pɪt/
- Rhymes: -ʌmpɪt
Noun
strumpet (plural strumpets)
- A female prostitute
- A woman who is very sexually active.
- A female adulterer.
- A mistress.
- (derogatory) A trollop; a whore.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes of Iealousie, Fear, Sorrow, Suspition, Strange Actions, Gestures, Outrages, Locking Up, Oathes, Trials, Lawes, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, 1638, OCLC 932915040, partition 3, section 3, member 2, subsection 1, page 610:
- He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.
- 1936: Like the Phoenix by Anthony Bertram
- However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.
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Translations
A prostitute
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Verb
strumpet (third-person singular simple present strumpets, present participle strumpeting, simple past and past participle strumpeted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To debauch.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, II. ii. 153:
- My blood is mingled with the crime of lust; / For if we two be one, and thou play false, / I do digest the poison of thy flesh, / Being strumpeted by thy contagion.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, II. ii. 153:
- (obsolete, transitive) To dishonour with the reputation of being a strumpet; to belie; to slander.
- Massinger
- With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame.
- Massinger
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