What's the difference between strumpet and succubus?

Strumpet


Definition:

  • (n.) A prostitute; a harlot.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a strumpet; characteristic of a strumpet.
  • (v. t.) To debauch.
  • (v. t.) To dishonor with the reputation of being a strumpet; hence, to belie; to slander.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They know that you're just going to buy everything from Amazon now, so they've all cut their losses and stacked every shelf with a trillion different 50 Shades Of Grey knock-offs called things like Disciplined With Buttplugs and 20 Carat Strumpet.
  • (2) It never worked for "slag", which is as current today as it was before feminism was invented (though I believe has been updated from "strumpet").
  • (3) She is an archetypal woman – variously compared to the Virgin Mary, the world's worst strumpet, a visceral animal, a 'box of worm seed'."
  • (4) It would only be thematically fitting, after McDonnell entered the national consciousness as Governor “ Let Us Ultrasound You With This Wand, Strumpet ”.

Succubus


Definition:

  • (n.) A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. Incubus.
  • (n.) The nightmare. See Nightmare, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gaskell took Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, the dirtiest, darkest, most depraved fantasy of all time, and, like an angel murdering a succubus, trod on her.
  • (2) Scarlett Johansson plays the succubus who comes to question the need for all this man-eating.
  • (3) Yet despite being a malevolent ink-and-paper succubus that will devour your firstborn – seriously, chuck a baby at a copy of the Mail, and watch as the paper roll its eyes back and swallows it whole – the Mail deserves its voice.
  • (4) Mrs Robinson would be happy to destroy Benjamin, and soon becomes a vengeful maternal succubus, the cold, strict prohibitive mother who punishes for no reason apart from her own pleasure.