pornerastic

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English

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek πόρνη (pórnē, prostitute) + ἐραστής (erastḗs, lover) + -ic.

Adjective

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pornerastic (comparative more pornerastic, superlative most pornerastic)

  1. (obsolete) lascivious; licentious
    • 1891, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books:
      We hear nothing of those petit crevivices, those pornerastic habits in high places, those Diamond-necklace scandals, those unmentionable gambols of the Porphyro-geniti, which are too often thrust before our eyes in fiction.

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