Scortatory

Pronunciation

• IPA: /skɔːˈteɪtəɹi/

Origin

From Latin scortat-, from scortari ‘associate with prostitutes’, from scortum ‘prostitute’.

Full definition of scortatory

Adjective

1. pertaining to scortation; lewd, fornicatory
• 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Twenty years he dallied there between conjugal love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures.