porn
/pɔɹn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.50 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Material, usually visual, presenting something desirable in a sensational manner.
Informal; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I just delete the porn before someone else uses the computer."
- "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."
- "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!"
- "There are anywhere from ten to twelve chapters in the average porn, so that many blank pages can be inserted."
- "— I’ve got it at home. Anyway, there was this gap between the final two porns."
- "I remember once watching a porn with some friends of mine […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *perh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pórnē Ancient Greek πόρνη (pórnē) Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos) Ancient Greek πορνογράφος (pornográphos)lbor. French pornographiebor. English pornographyclip. English porn Clipping of pornography. First attested in the mid-20th century.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pɔɹn/
- British English: /pɔːn/
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Homonyms
(non-rhotic) pawn