Strumpet vs Punkling - What's the difference?
strumpet | punkling |
A female prostitute; a woman who is very sexually active.
A female adulterer.
A mistress.
(derogatory) A trollop, a whore.
(obsolete) To debauch.
* 1591 , , II. ii. 153:
(obsolete) To dishonour with the reputation of being a strumpet; to belie; to slander.
* Massinger
As nouns the difference between strumpet and punkling
is that strumpet is a female prostitute; a woman who is very sexually active while punkling is (obsolete) a young strumpet.As a verb strumpet
is (obsolete|transitive) to debauch.strumpet
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* (l)Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame.