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Strumpet vs Strumpetry - What's the difference?

strumpet | strumpetry |

As nouns the difference between strumpet and strumpetry

is that strumpet is a female prostitute; a woman who is very sexually active while strumpetry is whoredom; prostitution.

As a verb strumpet

is (obsolete|transitive) to debauch.

strumpet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A female prostitute; a woman who is very sexually active.
  • A female adulterer.
  • A mistress.
  • (derogatory) A trollop, a whore.

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To debauch.
  • * 1591 , , II. ii. 153:
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) To dishonour with the reputation of being a strumpet; to belie; to slander.
  • * Massinger
    • With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame.

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    strumpetry

    English

    Noun

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  • Whoredom; prostitution.
  • * 1940 , Sydney Horler, Malefactors' Row
    • However, these abandoned women had other prospects besides mere strumpetry ...
  • * 2001 , Tibor Fischer, Under the Frog
    • ...how capitalism had taken young male proletarians to be slaughtered in wars for markets and how their sisters were thrust into strumpetry .
  • Behaviour suited to a strumpet; brazenness, sluttishness.