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# thanks for clarifying
now what the fuck does 'strumpet' actually mean?
(, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 14:34, archived)
# I always think it's the same thing as a wench.
Curvaceous, mischievous young woman. Landlord's daughter *sings* etc.
(, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 14:39, archived)
# *rubs thighs
(, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 14:41, archived)
# I bet I'm wrong.
It's always what it's meant to me though. But she's got to be about a size 14 or over, you can't have a thin strumpet.
(, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 14:43, archived)
# i will burst if there's anymore talk of buxomness
hush
(, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 14:46, archived)
# Buxom's an ace word.
(, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 14:47, archived)
#
strumpet
c.1327, of uncertain origin. One theory connects it with L. stuprata, fem. pp. of stuprare "have illicit sexual relations with," or L.L. strupum "dishonor, violation." Others suggest M.Du. strompe "a stocking," or strompen "to stride, to stalk" (as a prostitute might a customer). The major sources don't seem to give much preference to any of these. Weekley notes "Gregory's Chronicle (c.1450) has streppett in same sense." In 18c.-early 19c., often abbreviated as strum and also used as a v., which led to some odd dictionary entries:

TO STRUM: to have carnal knowledge of a woman, also to play badly on the harpsichord or any other stringed instrument. [Capt. Francis Grose, "A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1796]

(, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 14:46, archived)
# haha
so "slag" in layman's terms.
(, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 14:53, archived)
# Ah
now you have it sir!
(, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 14:56, archived)