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- [pawrn]
- /pɔrn/
- /pɔːn/
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- [pawrn]
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Definitions of porno word
- abbreviation Technical meaning of PORNO pornography 3
- noun porno Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively): arrested for selling porn; a porn star; porn films. 1
- noun porno television shows, articles, photographs, etc., thought to cater to an excessive, irresistible desire for or interest in something: a magazine filled with enticing food porn; an addiction to real-estate porn. 1
- abbreviation PORNO pornographic 1
- noun porno pornographic movie 1
- noun Definition of porno in Technology (application) Still and moving images, usually of women, in varying states of nudity, posing or performing erotic acts with men, women, animals, machines, or other props. Some say it degrades women, some say it corrupts young boys (who down-load it from the web or exchange it on floppy disks). Most of it is in the form of JPEG images. Many websites offer porn of all sorts, almost always for a subscription. It is said that these are a driving force in the evolution of new technology and techniques for the web. Advertisments for them certainly constitute a significant proportion of all spam. There are even pornographic computer games, an early example being Mac Playmate. Beware - many institutions, particularly universities, have strict rules against their computers and networks being used to transfer or store such things, and you might get corrupted. 1
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Origin of porno
First appearance:
before 1960 One of the 3% newest English words
First recorded in 1960-65; by shortening
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Porno
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porno popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
porno usage trend in Literature
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adj porno
- hardcore — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.