What's the difference between strumpet and trollop?

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 ”.

Trollop


Definition:

  • (n.) A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She came up with the idea for the series after reading a comparison between Trollope and Austen – Trollope herself has said that "comparisons with Jane Austen make me twitch.
  • (2) Both events are eloquent testimonies to the perils of what Anthony Trollope's novel called "the way we live now".
  • (3) We have regular users of the library, for 20 to 30 years, coming and saying to us we don’t know what we’d do without libraries.” Joanna Trollope: 'UK cannot afford to close one single public library' Read more More than 100 libraries were closed last year in the UK, with at least 441 shutting in the past five years, according to figures from Speak Up for Libraries , the coalition of organisations working to protect library services and staff that is behind Tuesday’s event.
  • (4) At the time, I wrote about how depressing it was to be in his moral universe: "A world where men are men and women are trollops."
  • (5) In the words of another Trollope title, "he knew he was right" , although it had become increasingly clear that he was in fact going badly wrong.
  • (6) Her lecture was to mark the 10th anniversary of the independent charity The Reading Agency, and was attended by fellow authors including David Nicholls, Julian Barnes, Joanna Trollope and Sarah Waters.
  • (7) Rebecca Lee, a barrister at the Chambers of Andrew Trollope QC, makes £42,000 a year before tax.
  • (8) Harold Macmillan spent many Downing Street hours lost in Austen and Trollope; Winston Churchill claimed Austen and antibiotics helped him win the war; Rudyard Kipling gave solace to his family after the death of his son in the first world war by reading Austen aloud in the desolate evenings.
  • (9) Her debut, Sense and Sensibility, first published in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady" and featuring the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, has been reimagined by Joanna Trollope in a version to be published by HarperCollins later this month.
  • (10) Anthony Trollope found Austen's novels "full of excellent teaching, and free from any word or idea that can pollute… Throughout all her works, and they are not many, a sweet lesson of homely household virtue is ever being taught."
  • (11) In a statement on Tuesday evening, Nona Buckley-Irvine, general secretary of LSE students’ union, said the club would be disbanded for the academic year after the flyer handed out at the freshers’ fair on Friday described women as “mingers”, “trollops” and “slags”.
  • (12) • canalmuseum.org.uk Kensal Green cemetery Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy One of London’s Magnificent Seven cemeteries, this canalside location “hosts” the likes of Harold Pinter, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope and the Brunels.
  • (13) The writer Joanna Trollope and bookseller Christopher Foyle are among the others, not all of whom have chosen to be named.
  • (14) "An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's The Pallisers has been axed by the BBC and instead I'm doing ... South Riding — a 20th-century story with quite a modern feel.
  • (15) Joanna Trollope: 'UK cannot afford to close one single public library' Read more “We have to do something about the budget, so rather than just cut the service we want to speak with people about what they want going forward.
  • (16) Now, publisher HarperCollins is hoping it has dreamed up another marriage made in heaven, commissioning Joanna Trollope to write a contemporary reworking of Austen's novel, Sense and Sensibility .
  • (17) It's a respectful conversation, and if it ends up with people talking more about Austen and Trollope, then that's a good thing.
  • (18) I never read Trollope or Wilkie Collins in England, I never swooned exultantly over finding a Virago-edition Rosamond Lehmann novel, or a Two Ronnies video at a yard-sale.
  • (19) Thea’s story: ‘The extrovert in me disappeared going into school’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thea Trollope.
  • (20) Asked if he worried about Beijing being involved in West Somerset, Trollope-Bellew said: “That’s not in my remit.