harlot

noun

1. (dated, derogatory, offensive)A female prostitute.

   “This day (great Duke) ſhe ſhut the doores vpon me, / While she with Harlots feaſted in my housſe.”

   “The bastard of a harlot, born in a brothel, suckled on gin, and familiar from earliest infancy with all the bestialities of debauch,[…]”

   “Truly, My Satan, thou art but a Dunce, / And dost not know the Garment from the Man. / Every Harlot was a Virgin once, / Nor canst thou ever change Kate into Nan.”

   “He was stopped by a painted harlot, who put her hand on his arm; he pushed her violently away with brutal words.”

   “O fine religious, decent folk, / In Virtue’s flaunting gold and scarlet, / I sneer between two puffs of smoke,— / Give me the publican and harlot.”

2. (derogatory, offensive)A female who is considered promiscuous.
3. (obsolete)A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth, especially one given to low conduct.

   “By suche ydle and wicked harlottes the enheritaunce of Christe is troden vnder fote.”

   “When lust doth rage it like a canker frets; It topsie turvie, upside downe all sets;[…] Where once it reigneth, there it maketh sure, A man a harlot, and a wife a whoore;”

   “[Take into your service] none but such as deny all ungod∣liness, and worldly lusts, and live soberly, chastely, and moderately in the Seas, and whose speech is not stinking, and unclean, as most Sea-mens are. What should you do with such Harlots in your service? which calls for holiness, and better principled men.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.

   “[…] they that spend their youth in loitering, bezzling, and harlotting, their studies in unprofitable questions, and barbarous sophistry”

adj

1. (uncommon)Wanton; lewd; low; base.

   “The intellection in it, kiddo—the intellection.... That most harlot of harlots... talking of me, laughing at me... I'll kill her....”