Meaning

2 senses

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To debauch.

  2. (obsolete, transitive)To dishonour with the reputation of being a strumpet; to belie; to slander.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. She is a strumpet.

    ruОна шлюха. — odexed

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  2. They answered: Should they abuse our sister as a strumpet?

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Origin

From Middle English strumpet, strompet, strumpett. Further origin uncertain; possibly from

From Middle English strumpet, strompet, strumpett. Further origin uncertain; possibly from Middle Dutch strompen (“to stalk”) or strompe (“stocking”); or Late Latin stuprum (“violation”) or stuprare (“to violate”).

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Forms

strumpets, strumpeting, strumpeted, strumpeted
Base formstrumpet · to strumpet
3rd person singularstrumpets
Present participlestrumpeting
Past simplestrumpeted
Past participlestrumpeted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theystrumpet
he, she, itstrumpets

Past simpleLesson

all personsstrumpeted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave strumpeted
he, she, ithas strumpeted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill strumpet

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
struggleB1strumstrutstub

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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