strumpetry

English

Etymology

strumpet +‎ -ry

Noun

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.