porn English · revision 4789

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=clipping|attested=1952|origins=en pornography}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /pɔːn/, US /pɔːrn/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a shortening [[der|en|pornography]] and [[pornographic]].^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(OED 1989)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ As an adjective, short for pornographic: 1952 in the OED.^(OED 1989) The noun, pornography, is from 1962 in the OED, Etymonline and MWU,^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) while the NODE and the Shorter Oxford date it to the 1950s.^(NODE 1998)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A rare sense, pornographer, is from 1958.^(OED 1989)^(HTOED) The longer porno is used in the same senses.^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024) Late in the 20th century porn came to be added to another noun for media that cater to an obsessive interest in a subject, as in ''gastro-porn'' and ''property porn'', usually mocking or disapproving.^(SOED 2002)^(COED 2004)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1952 – adjective, pornographic.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1958 – pornographer (rare).^(OED 1989)

+ * 1962 – noun, pornography.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(informal)'' [[pornography|alt=Pornography]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(informal)'' Media that cater to an obsessive interest in a subject: ''food porn''.^(Collins 2023)^(COED 2004)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # ''(informal)'' [[pornographic|alt=Pornographic]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[porny]]

+ * [[antiporn]]

+ * [[cyberporn]]

+ * [[kiddie porn]]

+ * [[soft porn]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pornography]]

+ * [[porno]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}