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strumpet
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synonyms: demirep, streel, courtesan, cocotte, Paphian, moll, giglot ???
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Definition:a slut
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Blackadder: Get out! Get out, libidinous swine! And take that horse-slut painted strumpet with you, where you'll both rot in the filth of your own fornication!
Queen: and what did you say to him?
Blackadder: Say, Madam? I said nothing. I simply pulled up my tights and jumped out the privy window.
BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Chains
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Walter: Those rich fucks! This whole fucking thing. I did not watch my buddies die face-down in the muck so this fuckin' strumpet, this fuckin' whore can waltz around town...
dude: Walter, I don't see any connection with Vietnam, man.
Walter: Well, there's a literal connection, dude.
Joel and Ethan Coen. The Big Lebowski (1998)
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He talk bout a strumpet in short skirts, smoking cigarettes, drinking gin. Singing for money and taking other women mens.
Alice Walker. The Color Purple (1982)
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Suppose that which I never will believe, that Naples is a cankered storehouse of all strife, a common stew for all strumpets, the sink of shame, and the very nurse of all sin
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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she is a strumpet. What's the news?
William Shakespeare. Hamlet (1600)
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he caught her by the shoulders and shook her. "Whore!" he shouted. "Whore! Impudent strumpet!"
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World, p.132 (1932)
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“Vot did I tell you, eh? Vot did I tell you? You vood haf a bruiser for your steady! An’ now your name vill be in all der papers! At a prize fight—vit boy’s clothes on! You liddle strumpet! You hussy! You—”
Jack London. The Game
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