单词 | brothelry |
释义 | brothelryn. 1. Coarse or indecent language or behaviour; lewdness; obscenity; depravity. Also: an instance of this. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > illicit whoredomOE harlotrya1387 brothelry?1526 chambering1526 bitchery1533 buttock banqueting1555 bitching1675 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 ?1526 J. Fisher Serm. at Paulis iv. sig. H.ii The couplyng of hym & of his mate to gyders is a veray brothelry, & a detestable sacrilege before the eies of god. 1607 B. Jonson Volpone Ep. Ded. sig. ¶3 Where nothing but the garbage of the time is vtter'd, & that with..brothelry able to violate the eare of a Pagan. View more context for this quotation 1659 Maze 7 His mouth us'd formerly to be furr'd up with obsceane tales, and his passages of Brothelry. 1758 ‘Mrs. Richwould’ South Sea Fortune II. x. 153 My indignation was so lively at this piece of downright brothelry, that though I feared to irritate him to an enemy, yet his behaviour to me was intolerable. 1802 Morning Post & Gazetteer 4 Nov. You must have known..that conquests and successes which had transformed the victors into crouching slaves with no freedom but to be vicious; no voice but to utter brothelry and blasphemy, could not in the eye of reason be glorious. 1876 A. C. Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (ed. 2) 384 The most brilliant and impudent chronicler of courtly brothelry between the date of Petronius and the date of Grammont. 1959 Daily Tel. 15 May 16/8 A war novel of the type now displacing the hitherto approved-pattern chronicle of incompetence, crapulence, treachery and brothelry. 2. a. The action or practice of running a brothel; (also) the occupation or activity of working as a prostitute in a brothel; prostitution. ΚΠ 1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. iv. iii. §1. 384 They did not practise brothelrie, as these doo openly: they made not a yeerely reuenewe and profite of Harlottes. 1639 S. Pick Festum Voluptatis 25 In the name of Fate what Saint is shee, That keeps a shop of publicke brothelrie? 1847 ‘Spectator’ Let. in Melbourne Argus 17 Dec. The conflict was tremendous; But the next door neighbour of this night licensed nunnery, bringing his fists to the aid of his co-partner in brothelry, the unfortunate ‘Princess’ was expelled. 1969 Financial Times 29 May 16/8 The last-mentioned [sc. removal of a hotel's licence] tends only to happen when a low-class pension moves over to the more profitable business of brothelry. 2013 @GJMaupin 27 May in twitter.com (accessed 30 Nov. 2021) Friends: know that when I refer to your home as a ‘cathouse’, I'm not accusing you of brothelry; I'm reminding myself to take allergy meds. b. A house or other premises where (esp. female) prostitutes engage in sexual activity with (typically male) clients; = brothel n. 3. Now rare.In quot. 1971 punning on the ending -ry found in other terms for commercial establishments. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > area characterized by brothels or prostitution stew-side1552 brothelry1577 red light1891 red-light district1891 ho stroll1972 1577 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. Ephesians xxxiv. f. 243 By and by there must needes bee a Brothelrie, or stewes set vp, not in some one corner of a Citie or towne, but ouer all. 1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London ii. sig. D1 Thou makest thy buildings a Brothelry to others. 1657 Lusts Dominion i. iii. sig. B9 Whilst you at home suffered his bed-chamber To be a brothelry. 1916 E. Julius Color of Life 14 The place was so quiet that it ceased to be a brothelry and became an altar where lovers—of a sort—might meet to kiss away their cares. 1971 A. Davidson Peregrine: Primus 104 ‘You might try seeing what that will purchase at a butchery or a bakery’. ‘Or a brothelry,’ suggested Claud. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.?1526 |
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