strumpetry

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noun

Whoredom; prostitution.

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Meanings

nounstrumpetry (uncountable)
  1. uncountableWhoredom; prostitution.

    However, these abandoned women had other prospects besides mere strumpetry […]

    1940, Sydney Horler, Malefactors' Row
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    […] how capitalism had taken young male proletarians to be slaughtered in wars for markets and how their sisters were thrust into strumpetry.

    2001, Tibor Fischer, Under the Frog
  2. uncountableBehaviour suited to a strumpet; brazenness, sluttishness.

    “Political itching"—a reference, perhaps, to the duchess's notorious political and sexual intriguing, and carrying the implicit suggestion that her strumpetry led to her contraction of “the itch," or venereal disease.

    2001, Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull, Undertaker of the Mind, page 240

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
whorishness

Origin

From strumpet + -ry.

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APA

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

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

Chicago

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

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