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Synonyms for strumpet

Grammar : Noun
Spell : struhm-pit
Phonetic Transcription : ˈstrʌm pɪt

Définition of strumpet

Origin :
  • early 14c., of uncertain origin. One theory connects it with Latin stuprata, fem. past participle of stuprare "have illicit sexual relations with," or Late Latin strupum "dishonor, violation." Others suggest Middle Dutch strompe "a stocking," or strompen "to stride, to stalk" (as a prostitute might a customer). The major sources don't seem to give much preference to any of these. Weekley notes "Gregory's Chronicle (c.1450) has streppett in same sense." In 18c.-early 19c., often abbreviated as strum and also used as a verb, which led to some odd dictionary entries:
  • TO STRUM: to have carnal knowledge of a woman, also to play badly on the harpsichord or any other stringed instrument. [Capt. Francis Grose, "A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1796]
  • noun prostitute
Example sentences :
  • Public opinion is a strumpet, and posterity a piece of nonsense.'
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) » by John Morley
  • You are a strumpet's daughter, my dear; you must be a strumpet yourself, if you wish to be anything.
  • Extract from : « The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) » by Alphonse Daudet
  • The father shall to prison; the mother and her strumpet daughter to the pillory!
  • Extract from : « Love and Intrigue » by Friedrich Schiller
  • The dog has sworn to take Arbe and give it to that Magyar strumpet of his, Yaga.
  • Extract from : « The Island of Enchantment » by Justus Miles Forman
  • The ban's Magyar strumpet was set where the ban had sworn to set her.
  • Extract from : « The Island of Enchantment » by Justus Miles Forman
  • Your unseasonable Thankfulness has rob'd us of our Strumpet.
  • Extract from : « The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce » by William Mountfort
  • If a woman be a strumpet, must it needs follow that she has a foul smell?
  • Extract from : « The Essays of Montaigne, Complete » by Michel de Montaigne
  • Did you know about that strumpet, Liz Trott, before you married her son?
  • Extract from : « The Cottage of Delight » by Will N. Harben
  • The scoundrel who had spoken of his niece as if she were a strumpet must die.
  • Extract from : « McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 » by Various
  • May the flames of St. Anthony consume me if you do not come with us, strumpet!
  • Extract from : « The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer » by Eugne Sue

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