whore
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English hore, from Old English hōre, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros, from *keh₂-.
Pronunciation- (RP) enPR: hô, IPA: /hɔː/
- (America) enPR: hôr, IPA: /hɔɹ/
- (rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) enPR: hōr, IPA: /ho(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /hoə/
- (nonrhotic, dough-door merger, AAVE) IPA: /hoʊ/
- (<
> but < ) enPR: ho͝or, IPA: /hʊɹ/, /hʊə/>, several locations
whore (plural whores)
- (vulgar, pejorative) Synonym of prostitute: a person (especially a woman) who offers sexual services for payment.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene ii]:
- 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.
- 1969, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, “The Boxer”, Bridge over Troubled Water, Columbia Records:
- I come looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
- I come looking for a job
- (vulgar, pejorative) A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut.
- 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes of Iealousie, Fear, Sorrow, Suspition, Strange Actions, Gestures, Outrages, Locking Up, Oathes, Trials, Lawes, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC ↗, partition 3, section 3, member 2, subsection 1, page 610 ↗:
- He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.
- 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, pejorative) A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.
- (vulgar, pejorative) A person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.
- (vulgar, pejorative) A contemptible person.
- (prostitute) See also Thesaurus:prostitute
- (promiscuous woman) See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman
- French: putain, pute, garce, morue, roulure, cocotte
- German: Hure, Nutte, Schlampe, Dirne
- Italian: baldracca, battona, mignotta, sgualdrina, squillo, peripatetica, puttana, troia, zoccola
- Portuguese: puta, prostituta, meretriz, rameira, garota de programa
- Russian: проститу́тка
- Spanish: puta, prostituta, zorra, fulana, (Mexico) golfa, ramera, guarra, mujerzuela
- French: salope
- Italian: baldracca, battona, mignotta, sgualdrina, squillo, peripatetica, puttana, troia, zoccola
- Portuguese: vadia, devassa, periguete
- Russian: шлю́ха
whore (whores, present participle whoring; simple past and past participle whored)
- (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.
- (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...).
- (to prostitute oneself) sell one's body, turn tricks; see also Thesaurus:prostitute oneself
- (to pimp) pander, turn out; see also Thesaurus:pimp out
- (to promote shamelessly) tout, pimp
- French: prostituer, putasser
- German: prostituieren, herumhuren, rumhuren
- Italian: prostituirsi
- Russian: развра́тничать
- Spanish: prostituirse, putear
- French: aller aux putes (vulgar)
- Italian: andare a puttana
- Russian: ходить по блядь
- Spanish: ir de puta
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