A prostitute. Also figurative.

A woman who engages in sexual activity in return for payment, esp. as a means of livelihood; a female prostitute.

Defiled; stained, dirtied. Also figurative. soiled dove n. Australian and North American slang. a prostitute.

depreciative. Of a woman: sexually available or promiscuous. Esp. in †common woman (obsolete). In later use passing into sense A. 5 or A. 11, esp. in…

A prostitute.

a woman who engages in sexual activity in return for payment; a female prostitute.

A whore, a prostitute; a strumpet, a slut.

A female prostitute. Obsolete.

Chiefly derogatory. A female prostitute; (also) a mistress, a concubine. More generally: a wanton, lascivious, or sexually promiscuous woman. Also as…

a prostitute; = common woman at common, adj. 3b.

A promiscuous or licentious woman; a prostitute. Cf. noughty pack n. at noughty, adj. compounds 2 and pack, n.1 9.

A harlot, prostitute, strumpet.

figurative. slang. A prostitute. Obsolete.

a harlot. (With the, as denoting the class.)

A brothel. (Developed from sense 3, on account of the frequent use of the public hot-air bath-houses… (singular and plural.) A bawd or prostitute. Obs…

A person who walks; spec. a streetwalker, a prostitute. Chiefly as the second element in compounds, esp. in causey-paiker.

= putain, n.

Apparently: a woman who is sexually promiscuous or works as a prostitute (perhaps one given to drooling). Cf. quot. 1552 at drivelling, adj. 1a. Obs…

A vigorous prolific breeder: originally said of a ewe; hence slang, an unchaste or lascivious person; esp. a strumpet, a harlot.

A prostitute. Now rare (historical in recent use).

derogatory. A prostitute. Cf. hack, n.2 5. Obsolete.

A promiscuous woman, a mistress; (perhaps) a courtesan, a prostitute. Obsolete.

A prostitute. Obsolete.

A prostitute who seeks clients in the street.

A prostitute. Cf. trader, n. 2, and also baggage, n. 6. Obsolete. rare.

A female prostitute. Perhaps occasionally also: a male prostitute.

A prostitute. Obsolete.

derogatory. A sexually promiscuous woman or (occasionally) man, a prostitute. In later use also as a more general term of abuse.

More fully common stale: a prostitute of the lowest class, employed as a decoy by thieves. Often (? associated with stale, adj.1) used gen. as a term…

A woman possessing the attributes of a mermaid; a woman who sings sweetly, or who charms, allures, or deceives; a siren. Also (in 16th and 17th…

slang. The female genitals. Also: a prostitute; a disreputable woman. Cf. also quot. 1627 medlar tree n. at compounds 2. Obsolete.

A prostitute. Cf. occupy, v. 8. Obsolete.

Chiefly literary. A prostitute.

Winchester goose: a certain venereal disorder (sometimes simply a goose); also, a prostitute (see quot. 1751). Obsolete.

In extended use. euphemistic. A prostitute. Obsolete.

a prostitute.

slang. A female procurer or pimp, esp. the madam of a brothel or bawdy house; (also) a female prostitute. Also as a title preceding a first name. Cf…

A girl, a woman; esp. a prostitute. Now rare.

In extended use: a prostitute, harlot. Obsolete. rare.

slang. A prostitute. Also: an act of prostitution. Obsolete.

A kept woman, a mistress; a concubine. Also (occasionally): a prostitute, a whore. Also in extended use. Cf. town miss n. at town, n. compounds 1b…

(a) a treacherous comrade; (b) a prostitute; (c) a glow-worm; (d) rare an earthworm that comes out at night.

colloquial and depreciative. A prostitute, esp. one who walks the streets at night; a promiscuous woman. Now U.S. regional.

(See quots.)

A woman who engages in sexual activity in return for payment, esp. as a means of livelihood; (formerly also) any promiscuous woman, a harlot.

A courtesan, mistress, harlot, prostitute. Obsolete.

A strumpet or prostitute. Cf. venture, n. 8. Obsolete. rare.

slang. A prostitute. Frequently in figurative context. Obsolete.

Applied to persons. A drab.

One who jumbles; in quot. 1618, A strumpet.

a harlot, strumpet.

a person who walks the streets.

(the Cheater's punk in Ben Jonson's Alchemist) a common woman, a prostitute.

See quot. 1612, and cf. to turn up at turn, v. phrasal verbs. Obsolete. rare.

the chair common to all his customers, figurative a drab, strumpet (obsolete).

A female prostitute. Obsolete. rare.

= public woman n.

slang. A prostitute; (later also in somewhat weakened use) a woman who is regarded as immoral or promiscuous. Cf. night trader n. at night, n. int.com…

A prostitute; = venturer, n. 3. Obsolete. rare.

allusively. (See stew, n.2) A prostitute.

A harlot; ‘also, a whoremonger’ (Halliwell).

A coach.

A prostitute. Also: a brothel.

a contemptuous name for a harlot.

a prostitute.

slang. A prostitute. Obsolete. rare.

A low-class prostitute. Obsolete exc. Historical.

a person who trades by night; spec. †a prostitute (obsolete).

slang. A woman, esp. one regarded as sexually available; a prostitute. Obsolete.

A harlot. Now archaic.

A woman wearing cosmetics; a prostitute; = painted woman n. at painted, adj. compounds 2a.

See quots. (Cf. tread, v. 8, tread, n. 6.) Obsolete.

Criminals' slang. A female prostitute. Obsolete except in buttock and file at phrases.

A prostitute, esp. one who solicits on the streets at night; a streetwalker. Now chiefly Law.

slang. A promiscuous woman; a prostitute. Also: a dirty or untidy woman. Obsolete.

slang. With the. Prostitution. Earliest in lady (also girl,etc.) of the game. In later use chiefly in on the game: see phrases 6b.

a courtesan, a prostitute.

= trug, n.2 Also attributive.

a woman who has lost her chastity, honour, or standing, or who has become morally degenerate; (sometimes) a prostitute.

A prostitute.

slang. An immodest or promiscuous woman; a high-class, fashionable prostitute or courtesan. Now historical and rare.

slang. A person, esp. a woman, infected with a venereal disease. Also: a prostitute. Cf. firedrake, n. 3d. Obsolete.

A loose woman, esp. a prostitute.

A mistress, a paramour; a prostitute. Obsolete.

(a) a form of disguising mask; a domino; (b) a prostitute. Cf. vizard-mask, n.

A woman who wears such a mask; a prostitute. (Cf. vizard, n. adj.5.)

A low-lived person; a petty thief; a street-walker, prostitute. Also = bulk, n.3

a prostitute.

a young woman who lives in a town; spec. a kept mistress, a prostitute.

a woman who lives in a town; (euphemistic) a prostitute; cf. town lady n., town miss n., woman of the town at phrases 6b.

euphemistic. A prostitute. Cf. lady of the evening n. at lady, n. phrases 3c.

A slattern, a slovenly woman. Formerly also: †a prostitute (obsolete).

= fling-dust n.

a prostitute.

A person out at night, esp. with criminal intentions. (In quot. 1693: a night-hag.)

slang. A prostitute; (also) a procuress, a pimp. Now rare.

A strumpet, prostitute.

A prostitute.

a woman who works at a market (in early use with connotations of promiscuity).

coarse slang. A woman with whom a person has sexual intercourse; a sexual partner; esp. (in earlier use) a prostitute.

colloquial (now historical) girl of (the) town: a prostitute (see phrases 2a(a)); cf. town, n. phrases 6b.

A votaress of Venus; a prostitute attached to a heathen temple in India; also generally.

a girl who lives or works on the streets, spec. a prostitute.

A girl, a woman; esp. a prostitute. Later also: the girlfriend of a thief or criminal. Cf. moll, n.2 1 2.

a sexually promiscuous woman, a prostitute.

euphemistic. woman (also lady) of the town: a prostitute. Cf. girl of (the) town at girl, n. phrases 2b, town woman n. at compounds 1b. Now archaic.

a girl of the streets.

slang (chiefly U.S.). A prostitute (now rare); a promiscuous woman. In later use also: a woman regarded as a sexual object (cf. chick, n.1 3).

slang. A prostitute, esp. one who works outdoors. Now historical.

(a) colloquial a person of irregular habits; †(b) a common prostitute; (c) (see quot. 1864); (d) Whaling (see quot. 1883).

slang. A prostitute. Obsolete.

An inhabitant or native of Cyprus, a Cypriot; hence transferred. A licentious or profligate person; in later use spec. a prostitute.

A girl, a woman, esp. a lower-class one; (occasionally) a prostitute. Cf. moll, n.2 Now chiefly Irish English.

a drab.

A prostitute. slang (chiefly U.S.).

A promiscuous woman; a prostitute. Hence: women considered sexually; (also) an act of sexual intercourse with a woman.

slang. †(a) A prostitute (obsolete); (b) women regarded collectively (by men) as a means of sexual gratification; sexual intercourse; a sexual…

A courtesan; a demi-mondaine; a prostitute. Frequently pretty horsebreaker. Obsolete.

Chiefly colloquial. A prostitute. Cf. profession, n. 7e.

slang. A street-walker.

A French prostitute of the fashionable world.

A prostitute; one of a class of the demi-monde of Paris.

a female prostitute who received medical attention under the terms of the Contagious Diseases Acts of the 1860s.

depreciative. Of a woman: sexually available or promiscuous. Esp. in †common woman (obsolete). In later use passing into sense A. 5 or A. 11, esp. in…

In Japan: a prostitute.

A Japanese girl whose profession is to entertain men by dancing and singing; loosely, a Japanese prostitute.

[French (grande) horizontale.] A prostitute. Also grand horizontal; also in French form. slang.

Now chiefly Australian. A sexually promiscuous woman, spec. a prostitute. Also a disparaging term for: a (young) woman. Cf. floozy, n.

slang. A prostitute. Now rare.

colloquial. girl of the pavement: a prostitute (cf. = nymph of the pavé at nymph, n.1 2a).

A prostitute. Cf. prossie, n.

A prostitute. Cf. pross, n.

slang (chiefly Services' slang). A girl or young woman; (also) spec. a female prostitute. Cf. earlier square-pusher n. (a) at square, n. compounds.

(see quot. 1903).

A woman; spec. a prostitute. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).

A common prostitute. Cf. shawlie, n. slang.

derogatory. U.S. slang. A sexually promiscuous woman; (sometimes) spec. a prostitute. Cf. tramp, n.1 4b.

A young woman; spec. a prostitute. Also in extended use: a woman or women regarded as a means of sexual gratification; the vulva, the vagina.

A prostitute. slang.

a prostitute (cf. lady of the night, n. 2).

A prostitute. Cf. prossie, n.

colloquial (originally U.S.). euphemistic. A prostitute.

A female prostitute regarded metaphorically as an item on a menu.

U.S. slang. A prostitute.

Used elliptically for various things made of brass: esp. slang. = brass nail n. at compounds 3.

a prostitute.

A woman who entices a man with the promise of sexual intercourse but who robs him instead. Also: a prostitute who seeks business on the streets, a…

figurative. coarse slang. A depreciatory term for a woman, esp. a prostitute.

euphemistic. A prostitute.

slang. A girl or young woman, esp. a promiscuous one.

A prostitute; = professional, n. 1b.

A prostitute.

With reference to a woman. British slang. A prostitute.

In Japan: a Japanese woman consorting with foreign men, esp. with Allied soldiers during the Allied occupation (1945–52); spec. a prostitute working…

a prostitute.

slang. A prostitute, a tart (see also quot. 1965); an untidy, slatternly girl or woman.

A street-walker or prostitute. slang.

An action providing a pleasurable or delicious sensation; love-making; (Naval slang) love-letters. yum-yum girl (euphemistic): a prostitute.

A woman (esp. a prostitute) in Hong Kong who consorts with visiting servicemen, etc.; also used generically in singular, and attributive.

slang (chiefly U.S.). A prostitute; a woman who has had numerous sexual partners.

derogatory. A woman regarded as shameless or sexually promiscuous. Also sometimes: a prostitute.

A prostitute.

a person who is paid or employed to provide sexual services, esp. one working in the pornography business or as a prostitute.

a prostitute who seeks business on the streets.

(originally) a parlourmaid; (later) a prostitute.

a prostitute addicted to crack cocaine.