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单词 putery
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puteryn.

Forms: Middle English puterie, Middle English putery, Middle English puterye, Middle English putrie, Middle English putry, Middle English puttrie, Middle English puytrye, Middle English–1500s putrye, 1500s putree; Scottish pre-1700 poytry, pre-1700 putry, pre-1700 pwtry.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French puterie.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French puterie, putrie prostitution (second half of the 12th cent. in Old French) < pute pute n. + -erie -ery suffix.The form putre is occasionally attested in 17th-cent. editions of Chaucer (compare quot. c1390).
Obsolete.
Usually with reference to women: adultery; promiscuity; prostitution.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman
puteryc1390
putage1480
whorishness1543
light-skirtedness1607
sluttiness1972
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 886 What seye we eek of putours that lyuen by the horrible synne of putrie [v.r. puytrye], and constreyne wommen to yelden to hem a certeyn rente of hire bodily puterie, ye, somtyme of his owene wyf or his child, as doon thise bawdes?
?c1430 (c1383) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 10 (MED) Þes pharisees geten hem moo holderis vp for here putrie þan for here trewe prechyng or holy lyf.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 194 We haue hir tane with putry playne.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) cxviii. 157 In puterye and in synne mortalle or dedely he [sc. the devil] hath grete power.
?a1500 (a1475) Wright's Chaste Wife (1869) l. 61 Haue here thys garlond of roses..And yf thy wyfe vse putry, Or tolle eny man to lye her by, Than wolle yt change hewe.
a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) v. 4403 A comowne woman in pwtry, [Nero a1500 (c1425) putry, Wemyss a1550 (c1425) poytry] That lyvyd in Rome than lustely.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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