harlotryn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈhɑːlətri/, U.S.

/ˈhɑrlətri/

Forms: see harlot n. and -ry suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: harlot n., -ry suffix.

Etymology: < harlot n. + -ry suffix.

A. n.

†1. Coarse or indecent language or behaviour; crude jesting; ribaldry; obscenity. Also in weaker sense: frivolous entertainment or behaviour, buffoonery. Chiefly Scottish in later use. Obsolete.archaic in quot. 1809.

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.

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.

†b. Chiefly derogatory. A sexually promiscuous woman; a harlot, a prostitute. Frequently (and in earliest use) as a general term of contempt or abuse for a woman. Obsolete.

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. Dij^v 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.

†d. figurative. Superficial or deceptive attractiveness; gaudy, specious show; meretriciousness. Obsolete.

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.

†e. A brothel. Obsolete.

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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.

†3. Waste matter, rubbish; muck, filth. Obsolete.

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).

单词	harlotry
释义	harlotryn.adj. Brit. /ˈhɑːlətri/, U.S. /ˈhɑrlətri/ Forms: see harlot n. and -ry suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: harlot n., -ry suffix. Etymology: < harlot n. + -ry suffix. A. n. †1. Coarse or indecent language or behaviour; crude jesting; ribaldry; obscenity. Also in weaker sense: frivolous entertainment or behaviour, buffoonery. Chiefly Scottish in later use. Obsolete.archaic in quot. 1809. 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. †b. Chiefly derogatory. A sexually promiscuous woman; a harlot, a prostitute. Frequently (and in earliest use) as a general term of contempt or abuse for a woman. Obsolete. 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. Dij^v 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. †d. figurative. Superficial or deceptive attractiveness; gaudy, specious show; meretriciousness. Obsolete. 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. †e. A brothel. Obsolete. 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. †3. Waste matter, rubbish; muck, filth. Obsolete. 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. 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