strumpet

6 definitions found

strumpet - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Strumpet \Strum"pet\, n. [OE. strumpet, strompet; cf. OF. stupe
     debauchery, F. stupe, L. stuprare, stupratum, to debauch,
     stuprum debauchery, Gael. & Ir. striopach a prostitute.]
     A prostitute; a harlot. --Shak.
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  Strumpet \Strum"pet\, a.
     Of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet.
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           Out on thy more than strumpet impudence. --B. Jonson.
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  Strumpet \Strum"pet\, v. t.
     1. To debauch. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     2. To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet;
        hence, to belie; to slander.
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              With his untrue reports, strumpet your fame.
                                                    --Massinger.
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strumpet - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  strumpet
      n 1: a woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress,
           hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet,
           trollop]

strumpet - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  STRUMPET. A harlot, or courtesan: this word was formerly used as an 
  addition. Jacob's Law Dict. h.t. 
  
  

strumpet - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "strumpet":
     Jezebel, bad woman, baggage, bitch, broad, chippy, clitoromaniac,
     cocotte, coquette, drab, easy lay, easy woman, flirt, floozy,
     frail sister, gold digger, grisette, harridan, hussy,
     hysteromaniac, jade, jezebel, loose woman, nymphet, nympho,
     nymphomaniac, pickup, quean, slattern, slut, tart, tramp, trollop,
     trull, uteromaniac, vamp, wanton, wench, whore