strumpet

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈstɹʌm.pɪt/

Definition of strumpet

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A female prostitute.
    “Em[ilia]. Fie, fie vpon thee ſtrumpet. / Bian[ca]. I am no ſtrumpet, but of life as honeſt, / As you, that thus abuſe me. / Em[ilia]. As I: fough, fie vpon thee.”
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noun

  1. A female prostitute.
    “Em[ilia]. Fie, fie vpon thee ſtrumpet. / Bian[ca]. I am no ſtrumpet, but of life as honeſt, / As you, that thus abuſe me. / Em[ilia]. As I: fough, fie vpon thee.”
  2. A woman who is promiscuous.
  3. A female adulterer.
  4. A mistress.
  5. (derogatory)A trollop; a whore.
    “He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.”
    “We have legalized the strumpet and are guarding her retreat; Greed is seeking out commercial souls before his judgement seat; O, be swift, ye clods, to answer him! be jubilant my feet! Our god is marching on!”

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To debauch.
    “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.”
  2. (obsolete, transitive)To dishonour with the reputation of being a strumpet; to belie; to slander.
    “That proud man, that vvas / Deny'd the honour of your bed, yet durſt / VVith his untrue reports, ſtrumpet your fame, / Compell'd by mee, hath given himſelfe the lye, / And in his ovvne blood vvrote it, […]”

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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”).

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