From Middle English hore, from Old English hōre, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros, from *keh₂-.

• (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 <>, several locations) enPR: ho͝or, IPA: /hʊɹ/, /hʊə/

whore (plural whores)

1. (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

2. (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.

3. (vulgar, pejorative) A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.
4. (vulgar, pejorative) A person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.
5. (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

• French: putain, salopard, saloparde
• Russian: курвец

whore (whores, present participle whoring; simple past and past participle whored)

1. (intransitive, vulgar) To prostitute oneself.
2. (intransitive, vulgar) To engage the services of a prostitute.
3. (transitive, vulgar) To pimp; to pander.
4. (transitive, vulgar) To promote shamelessly.

   Did you see him on that chat show, whoring his new book?

5. (intransitive, vulgar) To pursue false gods.
6. (intransitive, vulgar) To pursue false goals.
7. (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