harlotとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɑːlət/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈhɑɹlət/

名詞

harlot (plural harlots)

1. (derogatory, offensive, dated) A female prostitute.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostitute

   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 98, lines 204-205:

     This day (great Duke) ſhe ſhut the doores vpon me, / While she with Harlots feaſted in my housſe.

   • 1890, William Booth, chapter 6, in In Darkest England and the Way Out‎:

     The bastard of a harlot, born in a brothel, suckled on gin, and familiar from earliest infancy with all the bestialities of debauch, […]

   • 1908, William Blake, To the Accuser Who Is the God of This World:

     Truly, My Satan, thou art but a Dunce, / And dost not know the Garment from the Man. / Every Harlot was a Virgin once, / Nor canst thou ever change Kate into Nan.

   • 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXXVII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:

     He was stopped by a painted harlot, who put her hand on his arm; he pushed her violently away with brutal words.

   • 1918, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Hail! Childish Slaves Of Social Rules”, in New Poems and Variant Readings‎, London: Chatto & Windus:

     O fine religious, decent folk, / In Virtue’s flaunting gold and scarlet, / I sneer between two puffs of smoke,— / Give me the publican and harlot.

   • 1980, Dave Murray, “Charlotte the Harlot”, in Iron Maiden, performed by Iron Maiden:

     Charlotte the Harlot show me your legs, / Charlotte the Harlot take me to bed. / Charlotte the Harlot let me see blood, / Charlotte the Harlot let me see love.

2. (derogatory, offensive) A female who is considered promiscuous.

   Synonyms: skeezer, slut, whore, hussy; see also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

3. (obsolete) A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth, especially one given to low conduct.

   Synonyms: rake, hussy; see also Thesaurus:villain

   • 1544, R. Tracy, Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII:

     By suche ydle and wicked harlottes the enheritaunce of Christe is troden vnder fote.

   • a. 1653, “Joseph Tempted to Adultery”, in Zion's Flowers, published 1855, page 103:

     When lust doth rage it like a canker frets;
     It topsie turvie, upside downe all sets; […]
     Where once it reigneth, there it maketh sure,
     A man a harlot, and a wife a whoore;

   • 1659, Daniel Pell, Pelagos […] Or, An improvement of the sea […] , page 37:

     [Take into your service] none but such as deny all ungod∣liness, and worldly lusts, and live soberly, chastely, and moderately in the Seas, and whose speech is not stinking, and unclean, as most Sea-mens are. What should you do with such Harlots in your service? which calls for holiness, and better principled men.

派生語

• hap-harlot
• harlotize
• harlotry

動詞

harlot (third-person singular simple present harlots, present participle harloting or harlotting, simple past and past participle harloted or harlotted)

1. To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.

   Synonyms: harlotize; see also Thesaurus:harlotize

   • 1614, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defense against Smectymnuus:

     […] they that spend their youth in loitering, bezzling, and harlotting, their studies in unprofitable questions, and barbarous sophistry

形容詞

harlot (comparative more harlot, superlative most harlot)

1. (now uncommon) Wanton; lewd; low; base.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:obscene

   • 1943, Nick Joaquin, “It was Later than we Thought”, in Philippine Review:

     The intellection in it, kiddo—the intellection.... That most harlot of harlots... talking of me, laughing at me... I'll kill her....

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