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 |lnetxt=scortum scorti N N :: [[harlot]], [[prostitute]]; [[male prostitute]]; [[skin]], [[hide]]
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-==English synonyms==
-abandons, alley cat, almah, bangtail, Bankside lady, bargirl, bat, beotch, blouze, blowen, blowess, blowsabella, brass, brass nail, brasser, broad, business girl, call girl, callet, cat, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, courtesan, Covent Garden nun, creature of the night, croshabell, daughter of joy, dollymop, doxy, drab, Dutch widow, escort, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail sister, Fulham virgin, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gill, gillian, girl rented overnight, good-time girl, GRO, hackney, harlot, Haymarket ware, hireling, 'ho, hoe, hoer, hook, hooker, hustler, Japayuki-san, jay, karayuki-san, KTV girl, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the night, lightskirt, loose woman, lot lizard, meat puppet, meretrix, mermaid, minx, mob, moll, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mudkicker, mud-kicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavé, nymph of the pavement, painted lady, Paphian, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pretty horsebreaker, pro, pro skirt, pross, prossie, prossy, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, put, puta, quail, quean, quene, quiff, rannel, ribibe, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, skainsmate, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, sodomitess, soiled dove, stem siren, stew, street taco, streetwalker, streetworker, strumpet, succubus, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, tart, tawaif, thot, thotty, tib, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, vice girl, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, working girl
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 |lshtext=<b>scortum</b>: i, n. cf. Gr. [[χόριον]],> [[corium]]; Lith. skurà, [[skin]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit., a [[skin]], [[hide]] (post-class. and [[rare]]): pellem antiqui dicebant [[scortum]], Varr. L. L. 7, § 84 Müll.: jam [[Omphale]] in Herculis scorto designata descripsit, Tert. Pall. 4 med.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., a [[harlot]], [[strumpet]], [[prostitute]] (freq. and [[class]].): scorta appellantur meretrices, [[quia]] ut pelliculae subiguntur. Omnia [[namque]] ex pellibus facta scortea appellantur, Fest. pp. 330 and 331 Müll.—Sing., Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 132; id. As. 4, 2, 5; 5, 2, 17; 5, 2, 79 et saep.; Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 34; id. Ad. 5, 9, 8; Hor. C. 2, 11, 21; id. Ep. 1, 18, 34; Tib. 4, 10, 4.—Plur., Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 91; id. Pers. 3, 3, 14; id. Truc. 1, 1, 43 sq. et saep.; Cic. Mil. 21, 55; id. Cat. 2, 5, 10 al.—Of a [[male]] [[prostitute]], Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 12; Cic. Sest. 17, 39; id. Phil. 2, 18, 44; Petr. 9, 6; 119, 25; so also, [[virile]], Aur. Vict. Caes. 28.—And [[with]] a masc. pron.: [[scortum]] exoletum ne [[quis]] in proscenio Sedeat, Plaut. Poen. prol. 17 (cf. [[senium]], II. A.).—Also = [[pellex]], a [[mistress]], [[concubine]], Plaut. Cas. Grex, 5 and 7.