Prostitute vs Doxy - What's the difference?
prostitute | doxy |
A person who performs sexual activity for payment, especially a woman
A person who is perceived as engaging in sexual activity with many people.
A person who does, or offers to do, an activity for money, despite personal dislike or dishonour.
(usually reflexively) To perform sexual activity for money
To make another person, or organisation, prostitute themselves.
* Bible, Leviticus xix. 29
(derogatory) To use one's talents in return for money or fame
(figuratively) To exploit for base purposes; to whore.
(archaic) A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 328:
(colloquial) A defined opinion.
As nouns the difference between prostitute and doxy
is that prostitute is a person who performs sexual activity for payment, especially a woman while doxy is a sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.As a verb prostitute
is to perform sexual activity for money.prostitute
English
(wikipedia prostitute)Noun
(en noun)- I currently work as a prostitute in order to pay off my university debts .
Usage notes
* The noun is gender-neutral.Synonyms
* (person who performs sexual activity for payment) See also * (person perceived as engaging in sexual activity) See also , * (person who does an activity for money) sell outVerb
(prostitut)- Do not prostitute thy daughter.
- Yet again a commercial firm had prostituted a traditional song by setting an advertising jingle to its tune.
doxy
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from (etyl) *.Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Noun
(doxies)- Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra , a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal?
- So then, of course, he paid her in kind...the place is full of his doxies , open a closet at Allington and some wench falls out of it.