whore
See also: who're
English
Etymology
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From Middle English hore, from Old English hōre, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂ros (“loved”), from *keh₂- (“to wish; desire”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ)
(North American): (file) - Homophone: hoar
- Hyphenation: whore
Noun
whore (plural whores)
- (derogatory) Synonym of prostitute: a person (especially a woman) who offers sexual services for payment.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 2
- The merciless Macdonald – worthy to be a rebel, for that the multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him – from the Western Isles of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied, and fortune on his damned quarrel smiling showed like a rebel's whore.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 2
- (vulgar, derogatory) A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut.
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- 2004, Dennis Cooper, The Sluts, page 250
- So after he fucks the shit out of me, he tells me I'm lying about his whore not being Brad.
- (vulgar, derogatory) A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.
- (vulgar, derogatory) A person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.
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- 1990 June, Mother Jones Magazine, volume 15, number 4, page 9:
- By that time, Tejeda had already been accused of beating his wife, abandoning his children, living in sin with another woman, being a whore for the insurance lobby, and accepting bribes.
- 1997, John Irving, A Son of the Circus:
- a shameless hack—such a whore for the money—that he wouldn't even lend his name to his creations.
- 1999 October, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 44, number 10, page 186:
- I don't want to be a media whore," says Babydol. "I don't need to 'sell' my record — it will sell because it's good or won't if it's not
- (vulgar, derogatory) A contemptible person.
- 1999 August, Rod Garcia y Robertson, “Strongbow”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 97, number 2, page 4:
- "Begone," Clare shouted. She could not bring herself to kill in cold blood. "Begone, or I'll shoot." # "Idiot whore," he shouted back. "You would not dare."
- 2000 Spring, Pete Hamill, “The Fenian Ram”, in World of Hibernia, volume 5, number 4, page 72:
- I don't need that Lamont Cranston to tell me. Every Irishman knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. We've known since the time of that rotten ould whore, Elizabeth the Bloody First!
- 2003, Helen Kirkman, “A moment's madness”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Saxon curses rang in her ears. Dane, they yelled, Viking whore. We will have revenge on you.
Synonyms
- (prostitute): See also Thesaurus:prostitute
- (promiscuous woman): See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman
Derived terms
- achievement whore
- attention whore
- bewhore
- bitchwhore
- camwhore
- crack whore
- cuntwhore
- cute hoor
- fame whore
- forwhore
- graphics whore
- he-whore
- ho
- kinderwhore
- link whore
- manwhore
- media whore
- postwhore
- son of a whore
- stat whore
- whore bath
- whoredom
- whorefucker
- whore-fucking
- whorehound
- whorehouse
- whorelike
- whoreling
- whorely
- whoreman
- whoremaster
- whoremonger
- Whore of Babylon
- whorephobia
- whore's eyes
- whoreship
- whoreshit
- whoresome
- whoreson
- whore's paint
- whorey
- whorish
Translations
prostitute — see also prostitute
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sexually promiscuous person — see also slut
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unscrupulous person
Verb
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- (intransitive, vulgar) To prostitute oneself.
- (intransitive, vulgar) To engage the services of a prostitute.
- (transitive, vulgar) To pimp; to pander.
- (transitive, vulgar) To promote shamelessly.
- Did you see him on that chat show, whoring his new book?
- (intransitive, vulgar) To pursue false gods.
- (intransitive, vulgar) To pursue false goals.
- 1856, Matthew Henry, An exposition of the Old and New Testament, volume 2, page 42:
- As for those whose hearts go a whoring after the world, and who set their affections on the things of the earth, they cannot love his appearing
- 1967, Hawaiian Historical Society, The Hawaiian journal of history, volume 1:
- Whoring after fame, rushing into print, "scoring a scoop,"— alas! some scientists are too human.
- 1973, Herbert Tarr, A time for loving:
- "That Jereboam. He whores after power." "And you, my son, lust more decorously?"
- 1976, Matthew Fox, Whee! We, wee, all the way home:
- Is there any distinction between a nation that whores after a golden calf and one that whores after a black Cadillac?
- 1978, Wilfrid Sheed, The good word & other words:
- If he whores after the new thing, he will only get it wrong and wind up praising the latest charlatans, the floozies of the New.
- 2010 December 28, Mordechai Beck, “Set apart”, in Christian Century, volume 127, number 26, page 22:
- For them, God is still in heaven, and we his sinful children are still whoring after the twin idols of modernity and materialism.
- (transitive, slang, video games, vulgar, derogatory) To overuse something.
- BTW, that guy whuz still an asshole - camping the BFG and whoring the quad - I usually leave BFG maps but stuck around on that one and suicided quite a bit (3 times I got to about -10 frags, then came back to 0...).
Derived terms
Translations
to prostitute oneself
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to engage a prostitute
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to pimp — see pimp
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