/pɔːn/
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Translation
Short for "pornography": films, pictures or writing made to cause sexual excitement. The word is not an insult, but the subject is explicit, so it is out of place at work, at school, or with people you do not know well.
Word origin
A 1960s shortening of pornography, which came through Latin from Greek pornographos, writing about prostitutes.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- pornographos
Examples
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"Porn" is the short, everyday form of "pornography".
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Nobody swore, and he still lost the job. The subject is the problem, not the word.
openly.
In serious writing the word is normal. In small talk with strangers it is not.
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