Word Meanings - DEMIREP - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress. De Quincey.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEMIREP)
- Whore
- Harlot
- prostitute
- courtesan
- cyprian
- drab
- nightwalker
- street-walker
- wench
- strumpet
- Magdalen
- bawd
- punk
- demirep
- huzzy
- of the demi monde
- fille de joie'
Related words: (words related to DEMIREP)
- PROSTITUTE
1. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. "Do not prostitute thy daughter." Lev. xix. 29. 2. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute - WHOREMONGER
A whoremaster; a lecher; a man who frequents the society of whores. - FILLETING
The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively. - WENCHLESS
Being without a wench. Shak. - COURTESAN
A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp. - MONDE
The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. A. Drummond. Le beau monde Etym: , fashionable society. See Beau monde. -- Demi monde. See Demimonde. - DEMIREP
A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress. De Quincey. - COURTESANSHIP
Harlotry. - CYPRIAN
1. Belonging to Cyprus. 2. Of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness. - WHORE
A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Wyclif. Syn. -- Harlot; courtesan; prostitute; strumpet. (more info) OHG. huora, huorra, Icel. h, Dan. hore, Sw. - WHOREMASTERLY
Having the character of a whoremaster; lecherous; libidinous. - WENCH
To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame. - FILLET
A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied. Note: A fillet of beef is the under side of the sirlom; also called tenderloin. A fillet of veal or mutton is the fleshy part of the thigh. A fillet of fish is - WENCHER
One who wenches; a lewd man. - HARLOTIZE
To harlot. Warner. - MAGDALEN
A reformed prostitute. - HARLOTRY
1. Ribaldry; buffoonery; a ribald story. Piers Plowman. Chaucer. 2. The trade or practice of prostitution; habitual or customary lewdness. Dryden. 3. Anything meretricious; as, harlotry in art. 4. A harlot; a strumpet; a baggage. He sups to-night - HARLOT
1. A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth. He was a gentle harlot and a kind. Chaucer. 2. A person given to low conduct; a rogue; a cheat; a rascal. Chaucer. 3. A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; - FILLED CHEESE
An inferior kind of cheese made from skim milk with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarine or lard, to replace the fat removed in the cream. - WHOREDOM
The sin of worshiping idols; idolatry. O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled; they will not . . . turn unto their God. Hos. v. 3, 4. (more info) 1. The practice of unlawful intercourse with the other sex; fornication; lewdness. - FILLER
One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer. - DEMIMONDE
Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps. Literary demimonde, writers of the lowest kind. - STRUMPET
A prostitute; a harlot. Shak. (more info) debauchery, F. stupe, L. stuprare, stupratum, to debauch, stuprum - FULFILLER
One who fulfills. South. - BEAU MONDE
The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety. Prior. - OUTWHORE
To exceed in lewdness. - BEWHORE
1. To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of. J. Fletcher. 2. To pronounce or characterize as a whore. Shak.