prostitute
nounEtymology From Latin prōstitūtus, past participle of prōstituō, from prō̆ (“for, before”) + statuō (“to set up, to erect”).
1
Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
2
A woman who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
- Unfortunately, there is to my knowledge no visual evidence for the dress of the Roman prostitute, but the literary sources present us with a range of prostitute clothing (from rich accoutrements all the way down to nothing), […]2012, Kelly Olson, Dress and the Roman Woman: Self-Presentation and Society, page 50:
3
A person who does, or offers to do, a demeaning or dishonourable activity for money or personal gain; someone who acts in a dishonourable way for personal advantage.
- Kai Wen: Why not? You're nothing but a prostitute. / Vicky: How dare you call me a prostitute!2013, Unknown, “Gang Clash resulting in the stabbing of one person”, in Crimewatch (Singaporean TV series), season 27, episode 3, spoken by Kai Wen and Vicky (Jernelle Oh and Shanice Koh):
- Madonna would do anything for money, you know, she's a total prostitute. And I've got nothing against prostitutes.2019 May 18, Jack Shepherd, quoting Bobby Gillespie, “Primal Scream frontman calls Madonna a 'total prostitute' for performing at Eurovision in Israel”, in The Independent:
- Synonyms
163 terms
abandons, alley cat, almah, bangtail, Bankside lady, bargirl, bat, beotch, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, brass nail, brasser, brass, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, cat, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, Covent Garden nun, creature of the night, croshabell, daughter of joy, dollymop, doxy, drab, Dutch widow, escort, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail sister, Fulham virgin, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gillian, gill, girl of the game, girl rented overnight, good-time girl, GRO, hackney, harlot, Haymarket ware, hireling, 'ho, hoer, hoe, hook, hooker, hustler, Japayuki-san, jay, karayuki-san, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the game, lady of the night, lightskirt, loose woman, meat puppet, mermaid, minx, mob, moll, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavé, nymph of the pavement, painted lady, Paphian, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimpette, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro skirt, prossie, prossy, pross, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, pro, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, puta, put, quail, quean, quene, quiff, ribibe, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, skainsmate, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, sodomitess, soiled dove, stem siren, stew, street taco, strumpet, succubus, tart, tawaif, thotty, thot, tib, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, vice girl, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, working girl- Antonyms
- convertite, Magdalene, Magdalen, nonprostitute
- Derived terms
- antiprostitute, biostitute, intellectual prostitute, lacrosstitute, nonprostitute, presstitute, proselytute, prostibot, prostitot, Rastitute, sorostitute, temple prostitute
- Related terms
39 terms
unorthodox entrepreneur, abandoned habits, balum rancum, calling card, call, fuckie suckie, fuckie-suckie, half and half, incall, john school, kerb crawling, Magdalene asylum, Magdalene laundry, Murphy game, oldest profession, outcall, sex tourism, spinning house, tart card, whoremongery, yellow ticket, on the game, abbess, Covent Garden abbess, lady abbess, madam, pimp, apple-squire, applesquire, pander, panderer, ponce, procurer, prostitute oneself, pimp out, promiscuous woman, promiscuous man, prostitute's client, vamp- Hypernyms
- sexual partner
- Hyponyms
28 terms
asswhore, auletris, bodyworker, bottom bitch, call girl, carton girl, courtesan, fireship, gigolo, grande horizontale, hetæra, hetaera, hetaira, homowhore, KTV girl, lot lizard, meretrix, outlaw, pan-pan, pitcher-bawd, prostibot, rock whore, spinner, stale, streetwalker, streetworker, Suzie Wong, white slave- Coordinate terms
- business boy, butcher boy, callboy, he-whore, man ho, manwhore, moneyboy, party boy, piece of ass, rent boy, Hollywood hustler, Rastitute, rent-a-dread, sanky, sanky-panky
- Holonyms
- brothel, demimonde, escort agency, escort service, red light district, stable of bitches