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Strumpet is a very old insulting word for a woman who sells sex, or more loosely for any woman the speaker thinks is about sex. The important thing for a is that nobody uses it seriously today. You meet it in Shakespeare, in old novels, in period films — that is its real home. If a modern English speaker says it at all, they are joking, or being deliberately theatrical, the way someone might say 'thou villain'. Because it is so clearly old-fashioned, it lands as funny more often than as cruel, but the cruelty is still inside it: like all such words, it exists to shame a woman, and there is no matching word for a man. So read it, understand it, and leave it alone in your own speech. Its history is genuinely uncertain — scholars have suggested a Middle Dutch word for stalking about, and a Latin word for violation, but none of these is settled. It is one of those words whose beginning is simply lost.
妓女、蕩婦（極古舊的罵人話，只在莎士比亞或古典文學裡看得到，現代人不用）
組成來源不確定。中古英文 strumpet，再往前就眾說紛紜：可能來自中古荷蘭文 strompen「潛行、遊蕩」或 strompe「長襪」，也可能來自晚期拉丁文 stuprum「侵犯」。學者沒有共識。
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
strumpetnoun/ˈstɹʌm.pɪt/
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A female prostitute.
- Em[ilia]. Fie, fie vpon thee ſtrumpet. / Bian[ca]. I am no ſtrumpet, but of life as honeſt, / As you, that thus abuſe me. / Em[ilia]. As I: fough, fie vpon thee.
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A woman who is promiscuous.
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A female adulterer.
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A mistress.
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derogatoryA trollop; a whore.
- He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.
- We have legalized the strumpet and are guarding her retreat; Greed is seeking out commercial souls before his judgement seat; O, be swift, ye clods, to answer him! be jubilant my feet! Our god is marching on!
strumpetverb/ˈstɹʌm.pɪt/
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obsoleteTo debauch.
- My blood is mingled with the crime of lust; / For if we two be one, and thou play false, / I do digest the poison of thy flesh, / Being strumpeted by thy contagion.
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obsoleteTo dishonour with the reputation of being a strumpet; to belie; to slander.
- That proud man, that vvas / Deny'd the honour of your bed, yet durſt / VVith his untrue reports, ſtrumpet your fame, / Compell'd by mee, hath given himſelfe the lye, / And in his ovvne blood vvrote it, […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。