whorey

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adjective

Slutty, promiscuous.

“That is a very whorey, showy dress, Sara.”

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivewhorey (comparative whorier, superlative whoriest)

comparative whorier · superlative whoriest

  1. derogatoryvulgarSlutty, promiscuous.

    That is a very whorey, showy dress, Sara.

    3 more examples

    We got off the bus at Main Street, which was no different from where you get off a bus in Kansas City or Chicago or Boston—red brick, dirty, characters drifting by, trolleys grating in the hopeless dawn, the whorey smell of a big city.

    1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 12, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1

    The pity is that she didn't get more of the entertaining roles that were in her range; she hardly had the stability to play a mother or even a secretary and she was a shade too whorey for Daisy Miller or her descendants[…]

    1974, The New York times book review, volume 2

    After I told her, I stayed, as the chorus girls and the all-girl band applied their heavy whorey make-up, and watched the boy who played the MC get his face created.

    2011, Cris Mazza, Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, page 161

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

Translations

Finnish huoramainen, huorahtava
  • huoramainenOf or resembling a slut
  • huorahtavaOf or resembling a slut
  • lutkamainenOf or resembling a slut
  • lutkahtavaOf or resembling a slut
Polish dziwkarski
  • dziwkarskiOf or resembling a slut
Spanish aputada
  • aputadaOf or resembling a slut

Rhymes & wordplay

Sounds the same

hoaryHorae (one pronunciation)

Anagrams

Cite this entry
APA

whorey. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whorey

MLA

“whorey.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whorey. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “whorey,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whorey.

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