Pronunciation
- (RP) enPR: hô, IPA: /hɔː/
- (America) enPR: hôr, IPA: /hɔɹ/
- (rhotic, horse-hoarse) enPR: hōr, IPA: /ho(ː)ɹ/
- (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /hoə/
- (nonstandard but traditional, several locations) enPR: ho͝or, IPA: /hʊɹ/, /hʊə/
whore (plural whores)
- (pejorative) Synonym of prostitute#English|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, 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: Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, OCLC 932915040 ↗, 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: puttana, battona, baldracca, squillo, peripatetica, sgualdrina, troia, zoccola
- Portuguese: puta, prostituta, meretriz, rameira, garota de programa
- Russian: проститу́тка
- Spanish: puta, prostituta, zorra, fulana, (Mexico) golfa, ramera, guarra, mujerzuela
whore (whores, present participle whoring; 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: ходи́ть по блядь
- Spanish: ir de puta
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