Word.ws English Dictionary

strumpeting

strumpeting is the present participle and gerund of strumpet.

Meaning of strumpet

Verb

strumpet (third-person singular simple present strumpets, present participle strumpeting, simple past and past participle strumpeted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To debauch.
    • 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.c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To dishonour with the reputation of being a strumpet; to belie; to slander.
    • That proud man, that vvas / Deny'd the honour of your bed, yet durſt / VVith his untrue reports, ſtrumpet your fame, / Compell'd by mee, hath given himſelfe the lye, / And in his ovvne blood vvrote it, […]c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, signature G, verso

See all 7 meanings of strumpet

Questions about strumpeting

What is strumpeting the present participle and gerund of?
Strumpeting is the present participle and gerund of strumpet.

Words near strumpeting in the dictionary

  1. strumous
  2. strumously
  3. strumousness
  4. strumpet
  5. strumpeted
  6. strumpeting
  7. strumpetlike
  8. strumpetry
  9. strumpets
  10. Strumpshaw
  11. strums

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: strumpeting (page history and authors); strumpet (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: “strumpeting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/strumpeting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.