whore
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From Middle English hore, from Old English hōre, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“loved”), from *keh₂- (“to wish; desire”). Cognate with Dutch hoer, German Hure, Old Norse hóra as well as Sanskrit चारु (cā́ru, “dear”), Latin cārus (“dear, expensive”), and Irish cara (“friend”).
The unetymological spelling with wh- superficially denotes a formerly standard pronunciation with an excrescent /w/ (such as in whole), but such a form is hardly found in either commentators on Early Modern English pronunciations or records of traditional dialects (which both explicitly mention its rarity or absence), therefore leaving the spelling somewhat inexplicable. However, this may be because such an excrescent /w/ was absorbed by a following /uː/ (as in words with etymological /w/ such as whom, two) after it became established in the spelling but before our earliest orthoepic records.
Inflected forms:
form: whores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wh*re
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wh@re
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whoore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ho
pos: noun
tags: alternative
derogatory
slang
form: hoe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
derogatory
slang
form: whores
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wh*re
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: wh@re
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: whoore
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ho
pos: verb
tags: alternative
derogatory
slang
form: hoe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
derogatory
slang
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of prostitute: a person (especially a woman) who offers sexual services for payment.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
vulgar
examples: 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.
I come looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
gloss: A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
vulgar
examples: He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.
So after he fucks the shit out of me, he tells me I'm lying about his whore not being Brad.
gloss: A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
vulgar
examples: You're smart. They're all whores.
Dude: Since when did you become a political whore?
Phil: I prefer the term political slut, thank you very much!
gloss: A person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
vulgar
examples: Vidal is at once more detached and more preoccupied with his own view, celebrating an aristocracy of sensibility constantly thwarted and ignored by those mere whores after fame, the statesmen and politicians.
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.
a shameless hack—such a whore for the money—that he wouldn't even lend his name to his creations.
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
gloss: A contemptible person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
vulgar
examples: "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."
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!
Saxon curses rang in her ears. Dane, they yelled, Viking whore. We will have revenge on you.
gloss: To prostitute oneself.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
intransitive
vulgar
gloss: To engage the services of a prostitute.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
intransitive
vulgar
gloss: To pimp; to pander.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
transitive
vulgar
gloss: To promote shamelessly.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
transitive
vulgar
examples: Did you see him on that chat show, whoring his new book?
gloss: To pursue false gods.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
intransitive
vulgar
gloss: To pursue false goals.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
intransitive
vulgar
examples: 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
Whoring after fame, rushing into print, "scoring a scoop,"— alas! some scientists are too human.
"That Jeroboam. He whores after power." "And you, my son, lust more decorously?"
Is there any distinction between a nation that whores after a golden calf and one that whores after a black Cadillac?
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.
For them, God is still in heaven, and we his sinful children are still whoring after the twin idols of modernity and materialism.
gloss: To overuse something.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: 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...).
Synonyms: turn tricks
turn out
Derived words: achievement whore
as demure as a whore at a christening
attention whore
bar whore
bewhore
bitchwhore
bottle whore
camwhore
cockwhore
coke whore
crack whore
credit whore
cuntwhore
cute hoor
demure as a whore at a christening
dope whore
fame whore
Four Floors of Whores
graphics whore
hedge whore
he-whore
ho
Jack whore
karma whore
kinderwhore
link whore
loot whore
Madonna-whore complex
manwhore
media whore
nervous as a whore in church
postwhore
rock whore
slore
son of a whore
stat whore
sweat like a whore in church
whore bath
whoredom
whorefucker
whore-fucking
whorehound
whorehouse
whorelike
whoreling
whorely
whoreman
whoremaster
whoremonger
whore mouth
whorenalist
Whore of Babylon
whorephobia
whore's egg
whore's eyes
whoreship
whoreshit
whoresome
whoreson
whore's paint
whorey
whorish
whore after
whore around
whore out
whore up
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