Definitions

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  • noun Prostitute.

Etymologies

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From Spanish

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Examples

  • Very like the Spanish word puta, also used for whore.

    stems 2004

  • That includes a Walmart worker who referred to his manager as a "puta" -- Spanish for "whore" -- on the social networking site after a spat over store displays, as well as a frustrated Illinois bartender who took to Facebook to air his desire to see the "redneck" patrons on the other side of the bar "choke on glass" as they drove home drunk.

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  • Perhaps we're making small talk and I'll mention that my grandmother speaks only Spanish or that my last name has its roots in El Salvador or that I know what "puta" means (hey, it comes up).

    Daniel Cubias: White-Collar Blues: A Continuing Lack of Diversity 2009

  • The tunnel ahead of him, the passage through which he and Dubreton had been escorted to see the woman branded with the word 'puta' was empty, the door and grille open.

    Sharpe's Enemy Cornwell, Bernard 1984

  • She was not fool enough to be angry with the Miquelets of Alba, who renounced her, and called her "puta" all the time they were cutting the throats of the Netherlanders.

    The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Now, if she allowed her faithful soldiers the latitude of renouncing her, and calling her "puta" in the market-place, think not she is so unreasonable as to object to her faithful priests occasionally calling her "puta" in the dingle. '

    The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

  • She was not fool enough to be angry with the Miquelets of Alba, who renounced her, and called her 'puta' all the time they were cutting the throats of the Netherlanders.

    Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842

  • A Pope has been known to start from his bed at midnight and rush out into the corridor, and call out "puta" three times in a voice which pierced the Vatican; that Pope was -- '

    The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

  • She was not fool enough to be angry with the Miquelets of Alba, who renounced her, and called her 'puta' all the time they were cutting the throats of the Netherlanders.

    The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842

  • She was not fool enough to be angry with the Miquelets of Alba, who renounced her, and called her 'puta' all the time they were cutting the throats of the Netherlanders.

    The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842

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  • Be careful with whom you use this word.

    January 25, 2007

  • Persona que mantiene relaciones sexuales a cambio de dinero // Similar meaning: prostituta, ramera, zorra, pelandusca, lumi, meretriz, cortesana, buscona (Spanish); prostitute, whore (English) // Related words: prostitución, sexo, follar, proxeneta, chulo, chapero, prostíbulo, burdel, lupanar, quilombo (Spanish)

    October 21, 2007

  • You've listed a lot of Spanish words, and for some reason this one has the most related words. I wonder why...

    October 21, 2007

  • To seanahan: because it's a very popular word in informal speech.

    Common usages: (1) with the meaning of prostitute; (2) insult (for women); (3) as degrading adjective (ex: '¡cállate la puta boca!' ≈ 'shut the fuck up!')

    October 21, 2007

  • Actually, in most of the world's languages, insults like this for women have enormous amounts of synonyms.

    October 22, 2007