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harlotting

harlotting 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

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Questions about harlotting

What is harlotting the present participle and gerund of?
Harlotting is the present participle and gerund of harlot.

Words near harlotting in the dictionary

  1. harlotizing
  2. harlotries
  3. harlotry
  4. harlots
  5. harlotted
  6. harlotting
  7. Harlow
  8. Harlowe
  9. Harlowton
  10. harls
  11. Harlyn

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