The action or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with someone for payment; prostitution. Obsolete.
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释义 | society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] (490) bordelc1300 The action or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with someone for payment; prostitution. Obsolete. prostitution1553 The action of prostituting or condition of being prostituted; the practice or occupation of engaging… Of a woman or girl. trugging1591 The activity or profession of a trug (trug, n.2); prostitution. Only in †trugging place, trugging house: a brothel. trade1592 slang. With the. In various spec. senses. Prostitution. Cf. trader, n. 2. Also occasionally without the. putanism1672 Prostitution, harlotry. street1750 In specific uses, chiefly with the. The street as the locale of prostitution. Chiefly in to be (also to go) on (or †upon) the street(s) at phrases 4b. Magdalenism1840 prostitution. the life1858 U.S. slang. the life. Frequently in in the life. Prostitution; cf. game, n. 4b. profession1888 euphemistic and humorous. = prostitution, n. 1. Frequently in oldest profession n. at oldest, adj. compounds. social evil1901 any problem or issue that adversely affects society; spec. (frequently with the) prostitution (now archaic). hustling1924 Prostitution, soliciting as a prostitute. game1926 slang. With the. Prostitution. Earliest in lady (also girl,etc.) of the game. In later use chiefly in on the game: see phrases 6b. sex trade1931 the sex industry, spec. the business of prostitution. Subcategories:— group involved in (1) — selling woman into (2) — condition of being a prostitute (4) — action or practice of being a prostitute (10) — action or practice of male prostitute (2) — a prostitute (198) — male prostitute (12) — woman's hired lover (6) — soliciting (5) — pimping or procuring (81) — living on earnings of prostitute (14) — brothel-keeper (14) — spying after whores to extort money (1) — frequenting prostitutes (25) — brothel (91) — area characterized by brothels or prostitution (11) |
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