单词 | harlotry |
释义 | harlotryn.adj. A. n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > in conduct harlotryc1384 May game1571 scogginism1593 buffianism1596 delirium1599 fooling1602 scoggery1602 buffoonism1611 nonsense1612 scurrility1614 buffoonery1621 buffooninga1672 buffoon1780 pantomime1781 zanyism1823 harlequinade1828 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > low jesting or buffoonery harlotryc1384 scogginism1593 scoggery1602 harlequinade1828 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > lewdness, bawdiness, or obscenity filthOE harlotryc1384 filthiness?1504 brothelry?1526 lewdness1578 obscenity1589 obscenousness1591 spurcity1608 obscenenessa1637 bawdiness1731 priapism1758 nast1789 hircosity1873 raunch1957 raunchiness1962 sluttiness1972 slackness1980 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Eph. v. 4 Ether filthe, or foly speche, or harlotrie [a1425 L.V. harlatrye; 1526 Tyndale gestinge; 1582 Rheims scurrilitie], that perteyneth not to thing. c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 130 Corteis knihthod and clergye..Are nou so Rooted in Ribaudye Þat oþur merþes lust hem not make... We loue so slouþe and harlotrie, We slepe as swolle swyn in lake. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 27623 Of pride be-comis..manikin vnnaite oþer þing als sange of harlotery & lesing. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 134 Þe v. inche is harlotrie, makyng iapys a-forn folk, in pleying at þe spore, at þe bene, at þe cat. 1518 W. Neville Castell of Pleasure sig. A.ii The dyce and cardes,..Tables, cayles, and balles, they be now set a sale Men lete theyr chyldren vse all suche harlotry That byenge of bokes they vtterly deny. 1565 Compend. Bk. Godly Psalmes (title page) Spirituall sangis..cheangit. out of vaine sangis in Godlie sangis for tyll auode syn and harlatrye. a1586 R. Maitland in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 45 Yi persone gyde ay honestlie And hant na kynd of harlatrie ffra syn abstene. 1809 W. Scott Let. 10 Sept. (1932) II. 236 To reprint..the only original Caxton..with all the superstition and harlotrie which the castrator..chose to omit. 2. a. The action or practice of consorting with or engaging in sexual activity with harlots; the activity of working as a harlot; prostitution. Sometimes more generally: illicit sexual activity; licentiousness. Also: an act or instance of this.Now generally considered old-fashioned and chiefly used self-consciously for stylistic effect. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > illicit whoredomOE harlotrya1387 brothelry?1526 chambering1526 bitchery1533 buttock banqueting1555 bitching1675 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 37 (MED) Þis Comodus..ȝaf hym al to leccherie and harlottrie [L. obscenitati]. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. l. 354 Lechoures..of her harlotrye and horedome in her elde tellen. 1531 tr. E. Fox et al. Determinations Moste Famous Vniuersities iii. f. 46 Let nother harlottry, nor fornicacion, nor yet no maner of vnclennesse, be ones named amonge you, as it besemeth saintes. 1575 tr. T. Lever Treat. Right Way from Danger of Sinne (new ed.) vi. sig. E.v There is a greate difference betwixte the pure loue of honeste matrimonie, and the filthy loue of vile harlotrie. 1599 R. Pont Newe Treat. Right Reckoning of Yeares 103 Falsehood, oppression, murthers, harlottries, and all other such kinde of mischieuous dealing. 1660 T. Hall Funebria Floræ 21 Flora was a common-whore and one that got much mony by her harlotry. 1790 Harris's List Covent-Garden Ladies 75 She took such a disgust to promiscuous harlotry, that she resolved to accept of the first offer that was made to rescue her from prostitution. 1818 Hereford Jrnl. 7 Oct. Imagine an innocent girl..placed..within the range of this unbridled harlotry. 1879 Western Times (Exeter) 17 Feb. 2/3 The Mayor had sentenced Joan Luter, a bunting hussey, to be whipped publicly for her harlotries. 1944 Daily Mail 4 Apr. 2/6 Of all London this quarter is most notoriously surrendered to harlotry. 1969 R. Flynn In House of Lord 171 She had been faithful to Warren although he..publicly accused her of harlotry. 2002 Financial Times 16 Mar. FT Weekend section p. vii/2 His debut novel..chronicled..Sebastian Dangerfield in an odyssey of harlotry, boozing and general debauchery. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman queanOE whorec1175 malkinc1275 wenchelc1300 ribalda1350 strumpeta1350 wench1362 filtha1375 parnelc1390 sinner14.. callet1415 slut?c1425 tickle-tailc1430 harlot?a1475 mignote1489 kittock?a1500 mulea1513 trulla1516 trully?1515 danta1529 miswoman1528 stewed whore1532 Tib1533 unchaghe1534 flag1535 Katy1535 jillet1541 yaud1545 housewife1546 trinkletc1550 whippet1550 Canace1551 filthy1553 Jezebel1558 kittyc1560 loonc1560 laced mutton1563 nymph1563 limmer1566 tomboy1566 Marian1567 mort1567 cockatrice1568 franion1571 blowze1573 rannell1573 rig1575 Kita1577 poplet1577 light-skirts1578 pucelle1578 harlotry1584 light o' lovea1586 driggle-draggle1588 wagtail1592 tub-tail1595 flirt-gill1597 minx1598 hilding1599 short-heels1599 bona-roba1600 flirt1600 Hiren1600 light-heels1602 roba1602 baggage1603 cousin1604 fricatrice1607 rumbelow1611 amorosa1615 jaya1616 open-taila1618 succubus1622 snaphancea1625 flap1631 buttered bun1638 puffkin1639 vizard1652 fallen woman1659 tomrigg1662 cunt1663 quaedama1670 jilt1672 crack1677 grass-girl1691 sporting girl1694 sportswoman1705 mobbed hood1707 brim1736 trollop1742 trub1746 demi-rep1749 gillyflower1757 lady of easy virtue1766 mot1773 chicken1782 gammerstang1788 buer1807 scarlet woman1816 blowen1819 fie-fie1820 shickster?1834 streel1842 charver1846 trolly1854 bad girl1855 amateur1862 anonyma1862 demi-virgin1864 pickup1871 chippy1885 wish-wife1886 tart1887 tartleta1890 flossy1893 fly girl1893 demi-mondaine1894 floozy1899 slattern1899 scrub1900 demi-vierge1908 cake1909 coozie1912 muff1914 tarty1918 yes-girl1920 radge1923 bike1945 puta1948 messer1951 cooze1955 jamette1965 skeezer1986 slutbag1987 chickenhead1988 ho1988 1584 G. Peele Araygnem. Paris iv. iii. sig. Dijv Vul. A harletrie I warrant her. Bac. a peeuish eluish shroe. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd ix. 112 Whither gadde you now, you mangy harlotry; you pockey slut? 1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant iii. i. 36 You are a company of proud Harlottries; I'll teach you to take place of Tradesmens Wives. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. iv. 24 I expect you will produce the little harlotry. ?1790 A. Macdonald Laura I. x. 165 I suppose..you intend to marry this same strumpet, this beggarly, tattered harlotry. 1816 Ld. Byron Let. 19 Dec. (2011) II. vi. 28 Berger amuses himself with making love to some Harlotry on the other side of the street, out of the hall window. c. figurative. Any behaviour or action that is considered to be unfaithful, dishonourable, or unprincipled, esp. (in later use) that undertaken for personal gain or in pursuit of a particular goal. Also: unfaithfulness, inconstancy, or unscrupulousness as a quality. Often with preceding modifying adjective, as spiritual harlotry, political harlotry, etc.Earliest in religious contexts, esp. with reference to unfaithfulness to God or Christ. ΚΠ a1617 P. Baynes Helpe to True Happinesse (1618) iii. vi. 254 Let vs take knowledge of this our estate, and bewaile this spirituall harlotry in our nature. 1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 187 Such as have in their pride and disdain most forsaken the true Ministry, are come..from the harlotry of their wanton, and fine opinions, to consort with swine. 1682 J. Phillips News from Tory-land 2 To please the wanton Fancies, or Politick Ends of some sort of People with the Harlotry of his prostituted Pen. 1708 T. Simmons Serm. at Salters-Hall 10 The Jews..Committed their Spiritual Harlotry upon the Hills, and in the Fields. 1748 P. Hiffernan Refl. Struct. & Passions Man ii. 65 Men, we as undeservedly aquire, as unaccountably lose: This may be called the Harlotry of Friendship. 1865 Boston Daily Advertiser 3 Oct. We have now only an exhibition of political harlotry—a willingness to submit to anything to get into place. 1877 Kansas City Jrnl. 29 July A most miserable, shiftless, purposelessness, unprincipled harlotry, that disgusts even the mob. 1985 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 8 June The Tories..were so desperate to cling to power that they stole almost every policy of the two opposition parties. ‘I have never seen such philosophical harlotry,’ the Liberal Leader said. 2002 Independent (Nexis) 8 May 8 A trust had instructed a hospital to cancel operations the day before..to minimise same-day cancellation figures. He thought that typical of the Government's statistical harlotry. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun] > seeming > speciousness fair showing1340 speciosity1608 harlotry1632 brow1659 speciousness1665 1632 P. Fletcher Joy in Tribulation xxxv. 337 Oh ravish my heart with thy beauty, and teach me to abhorre the painted harlotry of this sinfull world. 1660 J. Gauden Cromwell's Bloody Slaughter-house 38 Who..now lying in wait for our pretious Souls, dress their whorish Faces with the Harlotry and temptation of a New fashioned Representative. 1754 T. Scott tr. Table of Cebes 15 No Harlotry, no Paint, no gay Excess, But Beauty unaffected as their Dress. 1772 W. Mason Eng. Garden i. 28 The simple Farm eclips'd the Garden's pride, Ev'n as the virgin blush of innocence, The harlotry of Art. 1808 Ann. Rev. Hist. & Lit. 7 608/2 Simplicity possesses charms which it is not in the power of affectation, with all its harlotry of embellishment, to bestow. 1857 Evangelist (N.Y.) 9 July 217/2 The harlotry of their charms is conspicuous when you rub off the paint and rouge. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel houseOE bordelc1300 whorehousec1330 stew1362 bordel housec1384 stewc1384 stivec1386 stew-house1436 bordelryc1450 brothel house1486 shop?1515 bains1541 common house1545 bawdy-house1552 hothouse1556 bordello1581 brothela1591 trugging house1591 trugging place1591 nunnery1593 vaulting-house1596 leaping house1598 Pickt-hatch1598 garden house1606 vaulting-school1606 flesh-shambles1608 whore-sty1621 bagnioa1640 public house1640 harlot-house1641 warrena1649 academy1650 call house1680 coney burrow1691 case1699 nanny-house1699 house of ill reputea1726 smuggling-ken1725 kip1766 Corinth1785 disorderly house1809 flash-house1816 dress house1823 nanny-shop1825 house of tolerance1842 whore shop1843 drum1846 introducing house1846 khazi1846 fast house1848 harlotry1849 maison de tolérance1852 knocking-shop1860 lupanar1864 assignation house1870 parlour house1871 hook shop1889 sporting house1894 meat house1896 massage parlour1906 case house1912 massage establishment1921 moll-shop1923 camp1925 notch house1926 creep joint1928 slaughterhouse1928 maison de convenance1930 cat-house1931 Bovril1936 maison close1939 joy-house1940 rib joint1940 gaff1947 maison de passe1960 rap parlour1973 1849 Lincoln, Rutland, & Stamford Mercury 27 Apr. Another brother's wife was indicted for keeping a harlotry in the Castle-dyke. 1898 Salt Lake Tribune 4 Mar. 4/1 The Commission could not eradicate prostitution, and..male habitues of harlotries should be arrested. 1920 Bunyip (Gawler, S. Austral.) 1 Oct. Harlotries have been flourishing under the semi-deceptive guise of the little..tobacco shop. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] gorec725 horeeOE filthOE foulnessOE dirta1300 gallc1400 ordurec1400 foulinga1425 harlotry1439 muck1440 noisance1473 horeness1495 vileness1495 naughtiness1533 vility1540 bawdiness1552 vildness1597 snottery1598 soilage1598 sordidity1600 soil?1605 sluttery1607 nastiness1611 bawdry1648 sords1653 crott1657 feculence1662 nast1789 clart1808 schmutz1838 crap1925 grunge1965 gunge1969 grot1971 spooge1987 1439–41 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. 261 Makyng clene the kechone place and brennyng the bonys and harlotri. 1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 374 No man caste donge or harlotry at the slipp, ner vpon the key. 1532 G. Hervet tr. Xenophon Treat. House Holde f. 60 They go aboute to clense the vynes from wydes and harlotry. B. adj. 1. Worthless, contemptible, lowly (now rare). Also (and earliest) of language: †coarse, obscene (obsolete).Later only in harlotry player in conscious allusion to Shakespeare's use (see quot. 1598). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective] theowlikec1175 wickc1175 wretcha1200 lechera1300 vilea1300 feeblea1325 brothely1330 caitiffa1400 roinousa1425 basec1450 harlotry1486 filthy1533 brockish1546 vild1568 tinkerly?1576 scabbed?1577 miscreant1593 unnoble1593 slavish1597 rascally1600 roguish1601 sordidous1602 facinoriousa1616 scullion1658 dirty1670 shabbed1674 shabby1679 scoundrel1681 scabby1712 verminating1720 small1824 low-down1865 verminiferous1895 ragtime1917 ribby1936 raunchy1937 scungy1966 1486 J. Mirk's Liber Festiuall (Rood & Hunte) sig. bvii/2 Ye may se what parell it is to speke idyll wordis and harlatry speche. 1573 G. Gascoigne tr. Ariosto Supposes ii. iv, in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 20 As though sixe mouthes and the cat for the seuenth, be not sufficiente to eate an harlotrie shotterell, a pennieworthe of chese. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 399 He doth it as like one of these harlotrie plaiers as euer I see. c1604 Charlemagne (1938) ii. 31 Thys vertue is the scurvyest, harlottryest, vndoeing thynge that euer mixte with ryssing courtyers thoughte. 1625 T. James Manuduction Divinitie 71 These cousening Knaues..shewed you this and that for filthy lucres sake; some butcher or harlotry fellowes shares, instead of Beckets. 1704 I. Sharpe Plain Eng. made Plainer 4 This is Discourse more fit for Dog and Bitch Yard..than a Pulpit; this is Harlotry Rhetorick indeed. 1716 C. Johnson Cobler of Preston i. 17 He is the most harlotry knave alive! 1799 G. Chalmers Supplemental Apol. Believers in Shakspeare-papers ix. 177 He bustled through several parts of no great difficulty; but he seems to have never risen about the general level of the ‘Harlotry players’. 1836 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 13 Oct. Shakespeare was..picking up a scrambling subsistence, first as a groom-boy, and then as a ‘harlotry player’. 1944 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Oct. 487/2 Did Shakespeare..never write for ‘the Professors’, but always and exclusively for these harlotry players? 2. Of the nature of or characteristic of a harlot (harlot n. 2b); wanton, sexually promiscuous; impure, debased. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] > promiscuous harlotry1579 light o' love1589 trolloping1701 promiscuous1804 wutless1853 slutty1912 make-out1949 slack1951 swinging1964 bed-hopping1979 bonking1987 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] > unchaste or sexually compliant (of women) > relating to harlot1574 harlotry1579 queanish1596 slutty1912 tarty1918 tartish1929 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 394 To haue lien with a young harlatry filth,..and then when he saw it was knowen, to goe and mary her. 1609 W. Whately Caveat for Couetous 7 Man is so taken vp in courting & wooing his harlotry mistresse, the world; the which hath taken him with her eyelids of gaine. 1643 O. Bowles Zeale for Gods House Quickned 10 The Church is Gods Spouse,..Reformers they strip her of all her harlotry attire, take off all her Iezabel-like paintings. 1670 J. Oxenbridge Quickening Word 17 When Christ is at the door, thou lyest a-bed, and that with thy unclean harlotry Lusts. 1701 E. Godwin Two Serm. ii. 34 For a Woman to marry a Man meerly for his Money or Worldly Estate, this is Harlotry Love and not that Conjugal Affection that ought to be between Man and Wife. 1817 Ld. Byron Let. 10 Apr. (1981) XI. 165 A parcel of rumours..about harlotry women—which were rife among the dirty English at Rome & Florence. 2007 Daily Mail (Nexis) 16 June 30 Perhaps not a slut, exactly, but she has certainly been showing tendencies of a harlotry nature. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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