pornograph

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UK/ˈpɔːnəɡɹɑːf/UK/ˈpɔːnəɡɹæf/US/ˈpɔɹnəˌɡɹæf/

noun

A pornographer.

RareScrabble 18

Meanings

pornograph1

nounpornograph (plural pornographs)

plural pornographs

pornograph2

nounpornograph (plural pornographs)

plural pornographs

  1. uncommonA piece of pornography; a pornographic image or text.

    Movie myths obscure the coercion that goes into the making of pornographs. So it is not surprising that while watching pornographs of women being brutalized, some people forget that there is real pain there.

    1992, Susan G. Cole, Pornography and the Sex Crisis, page 27
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    Of the four great Middle Aged poets (Chaucer, Gore, Pearl the Poet, and the Peerless Plowman), Chaucer was the first who dared forsake the classic Latin of his father to write in his mother’s tongue. In early youth Chaucer commenced The Canterbury Tales, a parchment of fools based on Boccaccio’s Consolation of Boethius (a collection of fourteenth-century pornographs). In 1066 an archbishop named St. Thomas Aquinas had acquired an extraordinary reputation for holiness after being murdered by T. S. Eliot in Canterbury Cathedral.

    1957, Robert Manson Myers, From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf, page 25
adjectivepornograph (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerarePornographic.

    The breakthrough of the pornograph movie into mass release in the United States was the phenomenon of the years after 1973.

    1975, Baxter Phillips, Cut, the Unseen Cinema, page 84

Origin

pornograph · noun

  1. Frenchpornographe
  2. Englishpornograph

From the French pornographe.

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pornograph · noun, adjective

Likely a back-formation from pornography. By surface analysis, porno- + -graph.

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Cite this entry
APA

pornograph. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pornograph

MLA

“pornograph.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pornograph. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pornograph,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pornograph.

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