Etymology

whorish

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Today it means: Resembling or befitting a whore. Full definition →

English whore ← Middle English hore ← Old English hōre
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*hōrǭ
  2. Old Englishhōre
  3. Middle Englishhore
  4. Englishwhore
  5. English todaywhorish

From whore + -ish.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.