strumpetry

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English

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Etymology

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From strumpet +‎ -ry.

Noun

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strumpetry (uncountable)

  1. Whoredom; prostitution.
    • 1940, Sydney Horler, Malefactors' Row:
      However, these abandoned women had other prospects besides mere strumpetry []
    • 2001, Tibor Fischer, Under the Frog:
      [] how capitalism had taken young male proletarians to be slaughtered in wars for markets and how their sisters were thrust into strumpetry.
  2. Behaviour suited to a strumpet; brazenness, sluttishness.
    • 2001, Jonathan Andrews, Andrew Scull, Undertaker of the Mind, page 240:
      “Political itching"—a reference, perhaps, to the duchess's notorious political and sexual intriguing, and carrying the implicit suggestion that her strumpetry led to her contraction of “the itch," or venereal disease.