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Answer for the clue "Strumpet ", 5 letters:
wench

Alternative clues for the word wench

Word definitions for wench in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A serving wench brought us flagons of watered beer. ▪ A tidy wench was unlikely to revive memories of a ragged boy aboard the Princess. ▪ A young girl who haunts the Feathers Hotel, a one time serving wench , and only seen by ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. informal terms for a (young) woman [syn: dame , doll , skirt , chick , bird ] v. frequent prostitutes

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to associate with common women," 1590s, from wench (n.). Related: Wenched ; wencher ; wenching .\n

Usage examples of wench.

I must admit that to you aforehand, but that is probably due to her being a rejected wench.

He was an Argon, that much she knew from the frenzied whisperings and gawking of the tavern wenches around her.

There was another serving wench, named Astel, and she was a kindhearted young thing.

He could feel sorry for any man tormented and bedeviled by a woman, though he could not see their foolishness in letting themselves be drawn to such ends by a simple wench.

A further note to the riddle of this sphinx was when Tim recently overheard the bohunk Albertsons manager telling his deli wenches to withhold the snack trays if they saw Tiresias at all.

You will waste the fields and the vineyards of the Caphars, you will burn their villages, you will strike down their men with arrows, and lead away their wenches captive.

Heading toward the dark, waiting cesspool where he knew Elminster of Shadowdale and the wench Sharantyr would come .

She sidled along the Cinder Town fences like any little wench returning after a breathless adventure, and nearly collided with poor Coode who was leaning over his front gate and hanging his melancholy on the pegs of the stars.

In the portrait the breast was bare, and as I was remarking that painters did those parts as best they could, the impudent wench seized the opportunity to shew me that the miniature was faithful to nature.

A sour wench, as thrifty as the dasht was liberal, and will no doubt start by letting half of us go and cutting the pay of the rest.

Sevrin was getting deuced little pleasure out of the constant rounds of gambling, drinking, and wenching.

When Ladayna appeared and denied my identity, I thought the wench angered with me again and merely set upon spitefulness which would slightly disaccommodate me.

Seagani tavern wench who was leaning drearily in a doorway and asked the price of a meal and a drink.

With fraudulent hetero cockiness I sank my sword into the waiting wench.

He called out some name, and a tidy-looking lad making his appearance, he told him to get me a wench just as though he were ordering a bottle of champagne.