porn
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Etymology
Clipping of pornography. Attested from mid-20th century.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pɔːn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /pɔɹn/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
- Homophone: pawn (non-rhotic)
Noun
porn (usually uncountable, plural porns)
- (uncountable, informal) Pornography. [from mid-20th c.]
- 1992, Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown[1], →ISBN:
- Underground boards also carried handy programs for "scanning" telephone codes and raiding credit card companies, as well as the usual obnoxious galaxy of pirated software, cracked passwords, blue-box schematics, intrusion manuals, anarchy files, porn files, and so forth.
- 2004, Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe[2], →OCLC:
- There're all kinds of ways to interact with our friends over the network: we can play hallucinogenic games, chat, send pictures, code, music, funny articles, metric fuckloads of porn… The interaction is high-quality!
- (countable, informal, chiefly in the plural) A pornographic work.
- Synonyms: adult movie, blue movie, X-rated movie, skin flick
- 1982, Florence King, “When Sisterhood Was in Flower”, reprinted in The Florence King Reader, Macmillan (1996), →ISBN, page 181:
- There are anywhere from ten to twelve chapters in the average porn, so that many blank pages can be inserted.
- a. 2004, anonymous study participant, quoted in Todd G. Morrison, “‘He was Treating Me Like Trash, and I Was Loving It . . .’: Perspectives on Gay Male Pornography”, in Todd G. Morrison (editor), Eclectic Views on Gay Male Pornography: Pornucopia (co-published as Journal of Homosexuality, Volume 47, Numbers 3/4), Psychology Press (2004), →ISBN, page 179:
- I remember once watching a porn with some friends of mine […]
- (uncountable, informal) Material, usually visual, presenting something desirable in a sensational manner.
- car porn
- gun porn
- food porn
- 2011, Michael K. Thomas, “The utility and efficacy of qualitative research software in grounded theory research”, in Vivian B. Martin, Astrid Gynnild, editors, Grounded Theory: The Philosophy, Method, and Work of Barney Glaser, →ISBN, page 140:
- Because software is particularly good at counting, it can be used to create wonderfully compelling visualizations of quantitative data. These can be so compelling that they have even been called “info porn” (see the periodic table of visualizations).
- (uncountable, informal, often humorous) Material that provides illicit gratification of an obsessive or unhealthy interest in something.
Derived terms
- antiporn
- bikeporn
- child porn
- competence porn
- cyberporn
- entreporneur
- foodporn
- food porn
- gastroporn
- hardcore porn
- infoporn
- inspiration porn
- kiddie porn
- kiddy porn
- kid porn
- ladyporn
- midget-porn
- misery porn
- mommy porn
- monster porn
- mummy porn
- outrage porn
- pity porn
- porn and prawn
- porn baron
- pornbot
- pornfest
- Porngate
- porngrind
- porn groove
- pornhua
- pornhwa
- pornie
- pornification
- pornify
- pornless
- pornlike
- porno
- pornobilly
- pornocopia
- pornoisseur
- pornotopia
- pornscape
- porn shop
- pornsick
- porn site
- porn-site
- pornstache
- porn star
- porn star martini
- porn star name
- porntoon
- porn tube
- pornware
- porny
- poverty porn
- property porn
- reflectoporn
- revenge porn
- scatporn
- soft porn
- spornosexual
- time porn
- war porn
Translations
pornography
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pornographic work
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See also
Anagrams
French
Noun
porn f (uncountable)
Scots
Noun
porn (uncountable)
- porn
- 2012, Iain Connell, Robert Florence, Burnistoun, Episode #3.4 (DVD subtitles)
- See, in the hospital before he died, ma da told me he kept his porn stash up there.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2012, Iain Connell, Robert Florence, Burnistoun, Episode #3.4 (DVD subtitles)
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