Word.ws English Dictionary

harloting

harloting is the present participle and gerund of harlot.

Meaning of harlot

Verb

harlot (third-person singular simple present harlots, present participle harloting or harlotting, simple past and past participle harloted or harlotted)

  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 sophistry1614, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defense against Smectymnuus

See all 5 meanings of harlot

Questions about harloting

What is harloting the present participle and gerund of?
Harloting is the present participle and gerund of harlot.

Words near harloting in the dictionary

  1. Harlins
  2. Harlivy
  3. Harloff
  4. harlot
  5. harloted
  6. harloting
  7. harlotise
  8. harlotised
  9. harlotises
  10. harlotising
  11. harlotize

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: harloting (page history and authors); harlot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “harloting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/harloting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.