porno

Shortening of pornographic or pornography. Attested from mid-20th century.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːnəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nəʊ

porno (not comparable)

1. Pornographic. [from the 1950s]

   That's a porno film.

   • 1973 January 21, Vincent Canby, “What Are We To Think of ‘Deep Throat’?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     For reasons that still baffle me, “Deep Throat” became the one porno film in New York chic to see and to seen at, even before the court case, even before Earl Wilson wrote about it.

   • 1978, Mario Pei, Weasel Words: The Art of Saying what You Don't Mean, page 15:

     […] ultra-risqué pictures verging on the pornographic (the most porno of the last-named have not yet made it to the TV screen, but they are getting there fast—witness the storm of protests over the situation comedy “Soap”).

• porn

porno (countable and uncountable, plural pornos)

1. (uncountable) Pornography.
   • 2004, Martin Amis, Vintage Amis, page 190:

     In any case, porno is littered—porno is heaped—with the deaths of feelings.

2. (countable) A pornographic film.

   They watched a few pornos.

• porn
• pornographer
• pornographic
• pornographically
• pornography

• ponor

• IPA^(key): [ˈporno]
• Hyphenation: por‧no
• Rhymes: -orno

porno n

1. (informal) porn, porno

   Synonym: pornografie

porno (indeclinable)

1. pornographic

   Synonym: pornografický

   porno časopis ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• porno in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

• IPA^(key): /pɔrno/, [ˈpʰɒːno]

porno c (singular definite pornoen, not used in plural form)

1. short form of pornografi (“pornography”) [from 1965]

Clipping of pornografie or a borrowing. First attested in the 1960s.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.noː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: por‧no

porno f (uncountable)

1. porn
   • 1964 June 11, “Fanny Hill”, in Friese Koerier, volume 19, number 226, page 2:

     Voor het assimileren van de verschillen tussen porno en kunst, zoals die in de laatste jaren door experts als het echtpaar Kronhausen en anderen zijn vastgelegd, zal in Nederland wel weer veel tijd nodig zijn.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• kinderporno
• pornofilm
• pornomodel
• pornoster
• pornozaak
• wraakporno

porno (used only predicatively, not comparable)

1. (Netherlands, slang) hot, attractive, sexy

Clipping of pornograafia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈporno/
• Hyphenation: por‧no

porno (genitive porno, partitive pornot)

1. porn

   Öösel aga võib palju pornot vaadata.

   But at night you can watch a lot of porn.

2. (colloquial, figurative) Something stupid, annoying, tedious.

   30 lapsele võõrkeele õpetamine on ikka paras porno küll.

   Teaching a foreign language to 30 children is really tedious.

   (literally, “Teaching a foreign language to 30 children is porn.”)

   1. Something of poor quality.
   2. A scandalous mess.

      Poliitiline porno.

      Political anarchy.

      (literally, “Political porn.”)

• pornograafia

• lapsporno
• lasteporno
• pornoajakiri
• pornofilm
• pornosait
• pornostaar
• pornotäht
• pornotööstus
• sotsiaalporno

See pornografia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈporno/, [ˈpo̞rno̞]
• Rhymes: -orno
• Syllabification^(key): por‧no

porno

1. Clipping of pornografia; porn
2. (in compounds) pornographic, porn

   pornoteollisuus ― porn(ographic) industry

• “porno”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• poron

Clipping of pornographique.

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁ.no/

• Audio

  (file)

• Audio (CAN)

  (file)

porno m (plural pornos)

1. (uncountable, informal) porno; porn

   l’industrie du porno ― the porn industry

2. (countable, informal) porn movie, skin flick, blue movie

   Synonyms: film de cul, film de boules, film cochon

• “porno”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

porno m or f (invariable)

1. (colloquial) pornographic

   Synonyms: pornográfico m, pornográfica f

porno m (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) pornography

   Synonym: pornografía f

Like foto, the shortened form of fotografia, this shortened form of pornografia is properly feminine, but sometimes used as a masculine noun.

Clipping of pornografi.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔr.no]
• Hyphenation: por‧no

porno (first-person possessive pornoku, second-person possessive pornomu, third-person possessive pornonya)

1. (colloquial) pornography.

   Synonym: pornografi

porno (first-person possessive pornoku, second-person possessive pornomu, third-person possessive pornonya)

1. (colloquial) lewd, lascivious, lustful.

   Synonyms: cabul, mesum

• “porno” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Clipping of pornografia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.no/
• Rhymes: -ɔrno
• Hyphenation: pòr‧no

porno (invariable)

1. pornographic

porno m (invariable)

1. porn, pornography (especially a pornographic film)

• prono

porno (singular and plural porno, comparative mer porno, superlative mest porno)

1. (military jargon) flawless

porno m (definite singular pornoen, uncountable)

1. pornography

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuːr.nʊ/

porno m (definite singular pornoen, uncountable)

1. short for pornografi (“pornography”)

• pornô (Brazil)

Clipping of pornográfico and pornografia.[1]

• Hyphenation: por‧no

porno (invariable, not comparable) (European spelling)

1. (informal) pornographic

   Synonym: pornográfico

porno m (plural pornos)

1. (Portugal) porn

   Synonym: pornografia

• “porno” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from English porno.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpor.no]

porno m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. pornographic
2. (slang) awesome

Clipping of pornografie

• IPA^(key): [ˈpor.no]

porno f (plural [please provide])

1. porn

This word is not a noun, although it is sometimes used as one. In order to avoid ambiguity, a phrase such as film porno or revistă porno should be used.

Clipping of pornográfico.

porno (invariable)

1. (colloquial) porno

   Synonyms: pornográfico, pornográfica

porno m (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) porno, porn, especially the concept or the industry

   Synonym: pornografía

Clipping of pornografía

porno m or f (countable and uncountable, plural pornos)

1. (colloquial) porn, especially the produced material

• “porno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

“El porno / la porno”, in WordReference Forums, 2013 November, retrieved July 21st, 2021

• IPA^(key): [ˈpoɾno]
• Hyphenation: por‧no

porno

1. porn
2. a pornographic film

• IPA^(key): [ˈpor.no]

porno (inv)

1. (when) compared to; as distinct from
   • 1966, Translation of the New Testament, Epistle to Romans, ch. 8, v. 18

     Mam za to, zo njejsu ćerpjenja tutoho časa ničo porno přichodnej krasnosći, kotraž so nad nami zjewi.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. unlike, contrary to
3. against
4. along with

• “porno” in Soblex