HARLOT, HARLOTRY
(also see PROSTITUTE)
ADJECTIVES
1596 ► QUEANISH of the nature of a harlot or strumpet → obs.
1751 ► MERETRICIAL befitting a harlot; having the character of a harlot → obs.
NOUNS
L16.. ► BUTTOCK-BANQUETING harlotry → sl.
L16.. ► SACKING LAW harlotry as practiced by the underworld with a view to further gain → cant
L17.. ► NUGGING-DRESS an odd or exotic dress, esp. a loose dress affected by, and characteristic of, harlots → cant
1904 ► SUBURB-TRADE harlotry → sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
1000 ► QUEAN a woman; a female; from early Middle English a term of disparagement or abuse; hence, a bold, impudent, or ill-behaved woman; a jade, a hussy; a harlot, a strumpet, esp. in 16th-17th centuries
1362 ► PARNEL a priest’s concubine or mistress; a harlot; a wanton young woman; an immodest girl; an immoral woman; one lost to all sense of decency; a sexually loose woman; a prostitute → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
16C.. ► KATE a harlot; a prostitute; a nickname for a loose woman → sl.
E16.. ► MORSEL a prostitute; a sexually attractive woman; a harlot or a tart
1529 ► DANT a sexually loose woman; a profligate woman; a promiscuous woman; a harlot, a prostitute → obs.
1557 ► MAB a harlot, a prostitute, a woman of loose character; a slattern → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1578 ► LACED MUTTON a strumpet; a harlot; a prostitute; a courtesan; an unchaste or loose woman → sl. obs.
1584 ► HARLOTRY a prostitute; a harlot; a term of opprobrium for a woman → obs.
1592 ► WAGTAIL a term of contempt for a profligate or inconstant woman; hence, a wanton woman, a prostitute, a harlot, a courtesan → obs.
1594 ► TWIGGER a vigorous, prolific breeder: originally said of a ewe; hence, an unchaste or lascivious person; a wanton person of either sex; a strumpet, a harlot, a fornicator, a wencher
1598 ► CROSHABELL a courtesan, a harlot, a prostitute → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1598 ► CYPRIAN a licentious or profligate person; later, a lewd woman, a harlot, a prostitute, a courtesan
L16.. ► FILTH a harlot → sl.
L16.. ► LIONESS a harlot; a prostitute → sl.
E17.. ► AMOROSA a wanton woman; a harlot
E17.. ► LOOSE-BODIED GOWN a prostitute; a harlot → sl.
E17.. ► PUG a courtesan; a prostitute; a harlot; a mistress → obs.
1600 ► HIREN a seductive woman; a harlot; a prostitute, a strumpet, a courtesan → obs.
1602 ► GAMESTER one addicted to amorous sport; a lewd person, whether male or female; a harlot, a prostitute; a promiscuous woman → UK obs.
1602 ► STRUMPET a harlot; a prostitute → sl.
1605 ► FRICATRICE a lewd woman; a harlot
1610 ► SUCCUBA a mistress; a harlot
1611 ► LAND-FRIGATE a harlot, a strumpet → obs.
1620 ► LIGHT HORSE a courtesan, a harlot → sl.
1623 ► PROSTIBULE a harlot, a prostitute → obs.
1633 ► SCOLOPENDRA a term of reproach to a woman; a nickname for a courtesan; a harlot → obs.
1670 ► QUAEDAM in a disparaging sense: a woman, a female; a loose woman, a harlot → obs.
1679 ► BUTTERED BUN(S) a harlot, a mistress → sl. obs.
L17.. ► ONE OF MY COUSINS a harlot → colloq.
L17.. ► STRUM a strumpet; a prostitute; a harlot → sl.
1700 ► PARTRIDGE a whore, a prostitute; a harlot or a tart → sl.
1721 ► REP a woman of reputation; hence, a harlot; a woman of a certain reputation → sl.
M18. ► CRACKED PITCHER a harlot still faintly respectable → colloq.
M18. ► DASHER a flashy prostitute; a showy harlot → sl.
1760 ► ACADEMICIAN a prostitute; a harlot; an inmate of an ‘academy’ → UK sl.
1784 ► IMPURE an unchaste or lewd person; a harlot, a prostitute
L18.. ► SQUIRREL a harlot → sl.
19C.. ► FOOL-TRAP a harlot → Brit. sl.
19C.. ► GARDEN GODDESS a Covent Garden prostitute; a harlot, not necessarily superior → UK sl.
19C.. ► GARDEN WHORE a Covent Garden prostitute; a very common prostitute; a low harlot → UK sl.
19C.. ► NIGHT-PIECE a harlot → sl.
19C.. ► RABBIT PIE a prostitute; a harlot → sl.
1820 ► HETAERA → HETAIRA a female companion or paramour, a mistress, a concubine; a courtesan, a harlot
1821 ► THE GIRLS harlots or prostitutes in the mass → colloq.
1830 ► GAME WOMAN a harlot; a prostitute → sl.
1830 ► GAY-BIT a prostitute, a harlot → Brit. & US sl.
1849 ► NEEDLE-WOMAN a harlot → sl.
1851 ► GAL a harlot; a prostitute → colloq. obs.
1860 ► FLY-BY-NIGHT a harlot
1867 ► GARRISON HACK a harlot; a military prostitute; a soldier’s drab → sl.
1885 ► LOTTIES AND TOTTIES harlots → chiefly theatrical usage
1896 ► INCOGNITA a high-class harlot → sl. obs. (Bk.)
20C.. ► CANVASBACK a harlot; a sexually loose woman; a woman who spends considerable time with her back on a canvas-covered floor, presumably copulating → sl.
20C.. ► PAINTED-CAT a prostitute; a frontier harlot → US colloq.
20C.. ► WOMAN OF LOOSE MORALS a sexually loose woman; a harlot → US sl.
1903 ► RIBALD → RIBAUD a harlot → sl. (Bk.)
1903 ► ROAD a harlot → sl. (Bk.)
1907 ► FANCY WOMAN a kept woman; a harlot; a prostitute → Amer. dial.
1908 ► RAG-TIME GIRL a sweetheart; a girl with whom one has a joyous time; a harlot → sl.
1918 ► HOOK a harlot; a prostitute, a hooker → Amer. sl.
1935 ► FLESH-POT a harlot; a sexually loose woman → sl.
1935 ► RAGS a cheap prostitute; a low-class harlot; any low and disreputable person → US sl.
NOUNS, PERSON – OTHER
19C.. ► CUNT-PENSIONER a kept man; a pimp; a man living on a woman’s harlotry or concubinage → colloq.
1887 ► MAC one who associates with harlots; a pander, a pimp → sl.
1891 ► FAKER a harlot’s fancy man → sl. obs.
1935 ► LOUIS a harlot’s bully → sl., orig. US
VERBS
1400 ► WHORE to utilize prostitutes; to consort with harlots
1589 ► HARLOTIZE to make a harlot of; to call harlot → obs.
1641 ► HARLOT to behave like a harlot; to prostitute oneself
1840 ► FLY THE FLAG of harlots: to walk the streets → sl.
M19. ► FLUTTER A SKIRT to be a (street-walking) harlot → sl.