porn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːn/
ipa: /pɔɹn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: pawn (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: porns
form: pron
form: pr0n
form: p*rn
Etymology: Clipping of pornography. Attested from mid-20th century.
Senses: examples: text: I just delete the porn before someone else uses the computer.
text: 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.
ref: 1992, Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown, →ISBN:
text: 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!
ref: 2004, Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, →OCLC:
synonyms: erotica
filth
smut
glosses: Pornography.
examples: text: There are anywhere from ten to twelve chapters in the average porn, so that many blank pages can be inserted.
ref: 1982, Florence King, “When Sisterhood Was in Flower”, reprinted in The Florence King Reader, Macmillan (1996), page 181
text: — I’ve got it at home. Anyway, there was this gap between the final two porns.
ref: 2000, Dennis Cooper, Period, Grove Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 33:
text: I remember once watching a porn with some friends of mine […]
ref: 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), page 179
synonyms: adult movie
blue movie
X-rated movie
skin flick
glosses: A pornographic work.
examples: text: car porn
text: gun porn
text: food porn
text: 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).
ref: 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:
glosses: Material, usually visual, presenting something desirable in a sensational manner.
glosses: Material that provides illicit gratification of an obsessive or unhealthy interest in something.
Derived terms: antiporn
bikeporn
child porn
competence porn
cub porn
cyberporn
ecoporn
entreporneur
foodporn
food porn
gastroporn
gorn
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
pornado
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
technoporn
time porn
war porn
whisper porn
Related terms: pornocracy