whore

plural whores · alternative wh*re · alternative wh@re · alternative obsolete whoore · alternative derogatory slang ho · alternative derogatory slang hoe

1. derogatoryvulgarSynonym of prostitute: a person (especially a woman) who offers sexual services for payment.

   I come looking for a job But I get no offers Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue

   1969, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, “The Boxer”, Bridge over Troubled Water, Columbia Records

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   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 (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]

   Synonyms: prostitute

2. derogatoryvulgarA person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut.

   So after he fucks the shit out of me, he tells me I'm lying about his whore not being Brad.

   2004, Dennis Cooper, The Sluts, page 250

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   He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.

   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

3. derogatoryvulgarA person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.

   You're smart. They're all whores.

   1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Mrs. Laudner (Frances Bergen)

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   Dude: Since when did you become a political whore? Phil: I prefer the term political slut, thank you very much!

   2004 February 12, Bayard Russell, nonemorecomic

4. derogatoryvulgarA person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.

   a shameless hack—such a whore for the money—that he wouldn't even lend his name to his creations.

   1997, John Irving, A Son of the Circus

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   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.

   1982, Daniel Hoffman with Leo Braudy, Harvard guide to contemporary American writing

   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.

   1990 June, Mother Jones Magazine, volume 15, number 4, page 9

   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

   1999 October, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 44, number 10, page 186

5. derogatoryvulgarA contemptible person.

   Saxon curses rang in her ears. Dane, they yelled, Viking whore. We will have revenge on you.

   2003, Helen Kirkman, A moment's madness

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   "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."

   1999 August, Rod Garcia y Robertson, “Strongbow”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 97, number 2, page 4

   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!

   2000 Spring, Pete Hamill, “The Fenian Ram”, in World of Hibernia, volume 5, number 4, page 72

present singular third person whores · participle present whoring · participle past whored · past whored · alternative wh*re · alternative wh@re · alternative obsolete whoore · alternative derogatory slang ho · alternative derogatory slang hoe

1. derogatoryintransitivevulgarTo prostitute oneself.

   In the morn he laughingly said we could go out whoring together & make some extra cash.

   1973 January 6, Lou Sullivan, Diary

   Synonyms: sell one's body

2. derogatoryintransitivevulgarTo engage the services of a prostitute.
3. derogatorytransitivevulgarTo pimp; to pander.

   Synonyms: pander

4. derogatorytransitivevulgarTo promote shamelessly.

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

   Synonyms: tout, pimp

5. derogatoryintransitivevulgarTo pursue false gods.
6. derogatoryintransitivevulgarTo pursue false goals.

   "That Jeroboam. He whores after power." "And you, my son, lust more decorously?"

   1973, Herbert Tarr, A time for loving

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   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

   1856, Matthew Henry, An exposition of the Old and New Testament, volume 2, page 42

   Whoring after fame, rushing into print, "scoring a scoop,"— alas! some scientists are too human.

   1967, Hawaiian Historical Society, The Hawaiian journal of history, volume 1

   Is there any distinction between a nation that whores after a golden calf and one that whores after a black Cadillac?

   1976, Matthew Fox, Whee! We, wee, all the way home

   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.

   1978, Wilfrid Sheed, The good word & other words

   For them, God is still in heaven, and we his sinful children are still whoring after the twin idols of modernity and materialism.

   2010 December 28, Mordechai Beck, “Set apart”, in Christian Century, volume 127, number 26, page 22

7. derogatoryslangtransitivevulgarvideo gamesTo 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...).