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strumpetry

strumpetry noun: whoredom; prostitution.

Noun

strumpetry (uncountable)

  1. Whoredom; prostitution.
    • However, these abandoned women had other prospects besides mere strumpetry […]1940, Sydney Horler, Malefactors' Row
    • […] how capitalism had taken young male proletarians to be slaughtered in wars for markets and how their sisters were thrust into strumpetry.2001, Tibor Fischer, Under the Frog
  2. Behaviour suited to a strumpet; brazenness, sluttishness.
    • “Political itching"—a reference, perhaps, to the duchess's notorious political and sexual intriguing, and carrying the implicit suggestion that her strumpetry led to her contraction of “the itch," or venereal disease.2001, Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull, Undertaker of the Mind, page 240

Origin of strumpetry

From strumpet + -ry.

Questions about strumpetry

What does strumpetry mean?
Strumpetry means whoredom; prostitution.
What part of speech is strumpetry?
Strumpetry is a noun.

Words near strumpetry in the dictionary

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

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