pornograph
UK/ˈpɔːnəɡɹɑːf/US/ˈpɔɹnəˌɡɹæf/
pornograph noun: a pornographer.
Noun (1)
pornograph (plural pornographs)
- A pornographer.
Noun (2)
pornograph (plural pornographs)
- A piece of pornography; a pornographic image or text.
- Of the four great Middle Aged poets (Chaucer, Gore, Pearl the Poet, and the Peerless Plowman), Chaucer was the first who dared forsake the classic Latin of his father to write in his mother’s tongue. In early youth Chaucer commenced The Canterbury Tales, a parchment of fools based on Boccaccio’s...1957, Robert Manson Myers, From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf, page 25
- Movie myths obscure the coercion that goes into the making of pornographs. So it is not surprising that while watching pornographs of women being brutalized, some people forget that there is real pain there.1992, Susan G. Cole, Pornography and the Sex Crisis, page 27
Adjective
pornograph (not comparable)
- Pornographic.
- The breakthrough of the pornograph movie into mass release in the United States was the phenomenon of the years after 1973.1975, Baxter Phillips, Cut, the Unseen Cinema, page 84
Forms of pornograph
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Origin of pornograph
From the French pornographe.
Likely a back-formation from pornography. By surface analysis, porno- + -graph.
Questions about pornograph
- What does pornograph mean?
- Pornograph means a pornographer.
- What part of speech is pornograph?
- Pornograph can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce pornograph?
- Pornograph is pronounced /ˈpɔːnəɡɹɑːf/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pornograph?
- The plural of pornograph is pornographs.
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