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strumpetry

noun

Etymology

From strumpet + -ry.

  1. derived from stuprum
  2. derived from strompen
  3. inherited from strumpet
  4. suffixed as strumpetry — “strumpet + ry”

Definitions

  1. Whoredom

    Whoredom; prostitution.

    • However, these abandoned women had other prospects besides mere strumpetry […]
    • […] how capitalism had taken young male proletarians to be slaughtered in wars for markets and how their sisters were thrust into strumpetry.

  2. Behaviour suited to a strumpet

    Behaviour suited to a strumpet; brazenness, sluttishness.

    • “Political itching"—a reference, perhaps, to the duchess's notorious political and sexual intriguing, and carrying the implicit suggestion that her strumpetry led to her contraction of “the itch," or venereal disease.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA