whoren.
/hɔː/, U.S. /hɔr/ 1.
a. A woman who engages in sexual activity in return for payment, esp. as a means of livelihood; a female prostitute.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute
meretrixOE
whoreOE
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Tom1941
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ho1966
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pavement princess1976
parlour girl1979
crack whore1990
OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 359 Meretricum contubernia : s. ad, horena to gemanum uel to geferrædenum.
lOE St. Nicholas (Corpus Cambr.) (1997) 85 Ða wolde heora fæder læton heo [sc. his daughters] beon horan þæt hi mihton his earme lif huru mid þan forðbringan.
a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily De Duodecim Abusivis (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 103 He..maceð of cristes leoman heoranna leoman [OE Corpus Cambr. 178 myltestrena lima].
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xv. 30 This thi sone, which deuouride his substaunce with hooris.
?c1430 (?1383) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 310 Whanne tweyne horis stryvede whos was þe child þat lyvede.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Kv Hop hoore, pype theefe?
1595 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1833) I. 73 Ane ressavear of huiris and harlottis in her hous.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 68 Let men take heed of Lais, Corinths whoore.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 382 The streetes swarming with whores, buffoones & all manner of rabble.
1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) i. 67 The whore is proud her beauties are the dread Of peevish virtue, and the marriage-bed.
1763 J. Boswell London Jrnl. 25 Mar. (1950) 227 I..picked up a whore.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas (1896) 148 Your rooms at college was beastly—more like a whore's than a man's.
1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential ii. xvii. 192 The most serious offense in Texas is raising the price of tarts. Northerners have been killed for giving whores $10, breaking the market.
2003 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 10 Mar. 22 In a subway tunnel, Alex comes upon a pimp bashing one of his whores.
b. Chiefly derogatory. A sexually promiscuous, wanton, or lascivious woman. Also occasionally (esp. with possessive): a concubine, a mistress. Also as a term of abuse.With quot. c1175 compare bitch n.1 3a.Quot. 1817 refers to a case dated 1703 in Ld. Raymond Rep. Courts King's Bench & Common Pleas (1743) 1004.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman
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c1175 Glosses to Homilies of Ælfric (Trin. Cambr. B.15.34) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 436 Fracodan myltestran : fulan horan & byccan.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 45 Ha leas hire maiden had..& wes imaket hore.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 5661 A fol womman in spousbruche he huld vnder is wif, Sein dunston him sede wel þat it was a luþer lif..Wroþ was þe king & is hore þat he hor folie wiþsede.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 2 (MED) I knowe well þat my wif is an hore.
1535 in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 58 The pope..gave hym licens to kepe an hore.
1547 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Stirling (1887) I. 48 Marioun Ray amerciat for trubling of Agnes Hendersoun, calland hir huir and theiff.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 120 Leaue thy drinke and thy whore . View more context for this quotation
1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. iv. 5 Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives.
1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 7 Feb. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1306 Achilles..had so little regard for his country, that he would not act in defence of it because he had quarrelled with Agamemnon about a whore.
1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1160 Calling a married woman or a single one a whore is not actionable, because fornication and adultery are subjects of spiritual not temporal censures.
1931 E. O'Neill Haunted ii, in Mourning becomes Electra (1932) 251 Lavinia... I have a right to love! Orin... You—you whore!
1959 J. Braine Vodi xi. 153 A dirty rotten little whore, who couldn't wait six months for her husband, not six lousy months before she went off with another man.
2016 N. J. Sales Amer. Girls vii. 333 For guys it's okay if they fuck like ten girls, but if a girl does it, we're a whore.
2.
a. figurative. Something regarded as sinful, corrupt, or idolatrous; esp. (frequently in biblical use) a corrupt, decadent, or idolatrous community or city; (in early use often) spec. (derogatory) the Pope, the Roman Catholic Church, or Rome as the seat of the Pope and the centre of authority of the Roman Catholic Church. Originally and frequently with allusion to the female figure described in Revelation 17:1-5 (see quot. c1384), as in the Whore of Babylon.During the Reformation, many Protestant commentators interpreted the figure described in Revelation 17:1-5 as a symbol of Papal Rome.scarlet whore: see the first element.
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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > corruption > corrupt community
whorec1384
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] > collective
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Lady of Babylon1605
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scarlet lady1807
scarlet woman1816
Latinism1920
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. xvii. 1 The dampnacioun of the greet hoore [1611 King James Whore; 1881 R.V. harlot; L. meretricis]..with whiche kynges of erthe diden fornycacioun.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. i. 21 Hou is the feithful citee ful of dom maad an hoore [?a1425 Claud. gloss. that is, ful of hordom bi the synne of auoutrie, which cite kepte feithfulnesse of matrymonye bifore]?
1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Fvv The greate baude the hore of babylon [sc. the Pope].
c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 342 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 86 Of antichristes fall I will..sum-thing tell; & of this howr, this leyder to hell.
?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xiii. sig. D1 That abhomynable whore of Babylon (Rome I meane).
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iv. 139 I may say of Constantinople..; A painted Whoore.
1673 J. Milton On New Forcers of Conscience in Poems (new ed.) 69 Because you have thrown of your Prelate Lord,..To seise the widdow'd whore Pluralitie.
1684 T. Southerne Disappointment ii. i. 11 But if her thoughts run foul, her mind's a Whore.
1704 C. Leslie Wolf Stript (ed. 4) 31 They call her [sc. the Church of England's] Episcopacy a Ragg of the Whore.
1743 H. Walpole Let. 3 Oct. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. lxxxvii. 257 He would have piqued himself on calling the Pope the w——e of Babylon.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. vi. 127 Image worship, and surplices, and sic like rags o' the muckle hoor that sitteth on seven hills.
1949 N. Beverley All I could never Be ii. x. 276 Berlin was a strident city, a screaming city, dressed to kill, over-doped, over-drunk, over-sexed... Berlin, in short, was a whore of a city.
1978 C. Lacy Coming Home to China iii. 38 This was Shanghai, onetime ‘whore of the Orient’.
2007 Independent 5 Jan. 11/1 In those days the Roman Church was still the Whore of Babylon to many Englishmen.
b. colloquial. In a whore of a ——: an unpleasant or difficult thing or situation; something regarded with contempt.
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1891 F. B. Perkins Mike His whore of a newspaper has blackmailed people.
1928 Hound & Horn Sept. 7 So I whispered to Rory that I could only hear the water falling in the weirs, and tumbling out of his bed he cried a curse from Christ on the whore of a river that was holding us here to be plugged by the Tans for a pair of Irish bitches.
1967 R. Cowper Phoenix ii. 57 As long as they're each capable of carrying half a ton back to Carlisle over that whore of a goat-track you call a road.
2006 K. Bruen Priest (2007) 257 My wife got a heart attack two weeks after, isn't that a whore of a thing?
3. Chiefly derogatory. A male prostitute; a (younger) man kept by another man as a (typically passive) sexual partner. More generally: a sexually promiscuous or lecherous man. Also as a general term of abuse. Frequently with descriptive modifier or as the second element in compounds, as in he-whore, male whore, etc.; cf. man whore n. at man n.1 Compounds 2a.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused > male
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > male prostitute
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > male > who takes on a more passive role
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1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. 17 The... Thou art said to be Achilles male varlot. Pat... Whats that. The. Why his masculine whore.
1633 J. Shirley Gamester (1637) ii. D 1 He that affronts Me, is the sonne of a Worme, and his father a Whoore.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. Pantagr. Prognost. 237 Ingles, Fricatrices, He-whores.
1776 W. Jackson Sodom & Onan 16 Male Whores of Quality, before Conviction May yeild support to countenance the Friction.
1870 J. Wilkinson Free State & Free Med. i. 20 I object to it in the interest of the bad women..who are unjustly selected as a mark for medical legislation, while the corresponding class, the male whores..are left free to emit infection.
1906 J. Joyce Let. 19 Aug. (1966) II. 152 He began to shout..when the lazy whores of priests began to chant.
1957 P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble vi. 108 Lyall would interrupt with..‘But surely you can't expect the Irish to be any use in Spain? There aren't any hedges here for them to shoot from behind.’.. Lawler would storm out, shouting: ‘Ye great buckin' whore!’
1971 J. Blake Joint 81 Either you're my old lady or you're a whore. If you're a whore, they'll grind you up. As soon as I can buy a two-man cell, we'll move out of here and lock together.
1992 R. Kenan Let Dead bury their Dead viii. 181 How many men do you know, black or white, could bluff, cool as a cucumber, caught butt-naked in bed with a damn whore? A white boy whore at that.
2019 @simplybysandra 3 June in twitter.com (accessed 4 June 2019) I automatically assume a guy thats extremely attractive is a whore.
4. A person regarded as willing to compromise or demean him or herself for personal gain or in pursuit of a particular goal; a person regarded as inconstant or promiscuous in a specified context or with regard to a particular thing. Chiefly with modifying word or as the second element in compounds, as in attention whore, publicity whore, etc.
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society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > lack of scruple > unscrupulous or unprincipled person
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snollygoster1846
whore1871
Ned Kelly1886
Snopes1962
1871 Greensburg (Indiana) Standard 2 Feb. It is a sorry sight to see the ‘brilliant young Senator from Jackson’, with a ring in his nose, being led round and exhibited by a gentleman whom, three months ago, he was denouncing as a political whore.
1961 Human Events 20 Oct. 705/1 ‘Most newspapermen are whores,’ Harry Truman once observed sententiously to a former Senate colleague.
1974 O. Clark Diary 9 July (1998) 26 Usual mixture of lords, fashion whores, beauties, bores.
1987 Los Angeles Times 11 Oct. 27 I'm a publicity whore just like the rest of them. But I'm not a bimbo.
1993 AntiShyster 3 i. 30/1 He's recognized as a legal whore who'll say anything for anyone.
2017 A. Alsaid North of Happy x. 104 Matt's an attention whore. The more people are there the better he'll feel.
Phrases
P1. to play the whore: to commit adultery or fornication; to prostitute oneself; to behave in a sexually promiscuous, lascivious, or provocative manner. Also figurative. Now somewhat archaic.In quot. 2015 in a work of historical fiction.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > of woman
to play the whore1530
1530 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. xxi. f. xxxviii Yf a preastes doughter fall to playe the whore, she poluteth hir father: therfore she shall be burnt with fire.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xvi. 28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assirians.
1561 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 78 Beynge demaundid why she did,..contrary to the Lawe of wedlocke, play the hoore.
1706 Honest London Spy iii. 68 A very pretty Excuse indeed! you must play the Whore, or else you must starve! Why if you were an honest Woman, nothing could make you play the Whore.
a1754 S. Bourn 20 Serm. (1755) vii. 167 Will it be for the Honour and Comfort of their Families, if their Wives commit Adultery, their Sisters play the Whore, their Children grow insolent?
2001 Contra Costa (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 14 Feb. a18 The mainstream press is now engaged in a desperate attempt to regain its lost virtue after playing the whore to the Clintons.
2015 J. Shupe Courtesan Duchess viii. 166 You were so willing to play the whore for a duke.
P2.
son of a whore n. and adj. colloquial (a) n. used as a general term of abuse or contempt for a man. (b) adj. contemptible, damnable; used as an intensifier. [Compare Anglo-Norman fiz a putain , Middle French fils a putain (12th cent. or earlier), Middle French, French fils de putain (16th cent. or earlier), and Spanish hijo de puta (a1325 as fijo de puta ). Compare earlier whoreson n.]
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?1576 A. Hall Let. touchyng Priuate Quarell sig. H.iij The Spaniarde hightes him the sonne of a whore, a Bougger, a Marano, the most odious name wt that nation, & as many more, as eyther Ruffian or Rogue can deuise.
1675 Char. Town-gallant 5 He admires the Eloquence of, Son of a Whore,..and therefor applyes it to every thing; So that if his Pipe be faulty,..Tis a Son of a Whore Pipe.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical iii. 21 Another Son of a Whore yells louder than Homer's Stentor.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xi. 253 Stop though, thou sack-doudling son of a whore!
1982 K. Harper Island Ecstasy xxix. 550 You bastard, you son-of-a-whore bastard.
1999 T. Parker & M. Stone Death in South Park Scripts: Bk. 1 109 It's about time you late ass lazy son of a whore!
P3. a whore in (also at) church: used (usually in similes) to convey the experience of being noticeably out of place or uncomfortable in a particular situation, environment, or event. Cf. like a whore at a christening at christening n. Phrases.
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1720 E. Ward Delights of Bottle i. 19 What's Musick but a fulsome sound, That cloys, except the Glass goes round? And makes us duller than a Whore At Church, by that time Psalms are o'er.
1942 H. Matthews River-bottom Boy 94 You're nervous as a whore in church.
1973 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Advance-Titan 6 Dec. 20/2 Boy, it's hot up here. I'm sweating like a whore in church.
2001 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 17 Aug. Being a realist painter in the 1970s was like ‘being a whore in church,’ says artist John Carroll Doyle. You kept your mouth shut and hoped no one would notice.
Compounds
C1. † whore-call n. humorous Obsolete rare an instrument which makes a sound to attract whores.Apparently an isolated use. † whore-play n. [play n. 6c] Obsolete rare adultery, fornication.† whore-sty n. Obsolete rare a brothel.Apparently an isolated use.† whore toll n. Obsolete rare a sum of money paid by priests for committing sexual sins such as fornication, using prostitutes, or keeping a mistress.Apparently an isolated use. The reference is to the cullagium, a tax levied by the state on mistresses kept by clergymen.
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a1692 T. Shadwell Volunteers (1693) v. i. 51 These fiddles are Fop-Calls, and Whore-Calls; we shall have the Town assemble.
whore haunter n. now rare a man who uses prostitutes frequently or habitually.
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1548 T. Cranmer Catechismus sig. I.vv And he that is a whore haunter he shall hardelye escape wedlocke breakynge.
1580 Orders for Orphans (City of London) sig. A.iiii If any manchilde be a Thiefe, or a Fellon, or a common whore haunter.
2013 @187_Swag 24 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 10 Sept. 2019) I'm a whore haunter.
whorehopper n. slang (chiefly U.S. regional in later use) a man who uses prostitutes frequently or habitually; a lecherous or sexually promiscuous man.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > womanizing or associating with loose women > one who
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] > lascivious or lustful person > lecher
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lech1943
stoata1960
shark1981
1664 J. Wilson Cheats iv. ii. 51 The father of this is the Devil, the mother, his Dam, its brothers, and sisters, the Tribe of Whore-hoppers, the wind carries it, from Bawdy-house, to Bawdy-house.
1709 Newdigate Newslet. 26 Mar. (Folger L.c.3352) One Dent by Trade a Shoe maker, but for sometime past followed the Occupacon of an Informer & whore hopper & was murdered some dayes before.
1932 South Western Reporter 2nd Ser. 42 893/1 The defendant..maliciously spoke of and concerning this plaintiff and his candidacy these words: ‘You can't afford to vote for Arthur Rhorer. He is a whore-hopper, a drunkard and a grafter.’
1998 Hawk Eye (Burlington, Iowa) 24 Mar. 8 a/5 For every louse, I can show you a noble human..; for every slut and whore-hopper, a chaste person who honors his vows.
2019 @723tomcat 11 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 16 Apr. 2019) Where I'm from the mistress is called a whore and the man is called a whore hopper!
whorehopping n. and adj. slang (chiefly U.S. regional) (a) n. the action or practice of frequently or habitually using prostitutes; lecherous or sexually promiscuous behaviour; (b) adj. that frequently or habitually uses prostitutes; lecherous, sexually promiscuous (also as a more general term of abuse).
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > womanizing or associating with loose women
whore-playa1325
whoring1530
whore-huntinga1533
whoremonging1549
palliardy1568
queanry1568
queaning1569
harloting1575
wenching1590
whorism1598
coney-catching1616
whoremastery1618
woman palaver1803
molrowing1860
whorehopping1916
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] > lecherousness or lechery
lecheryc1230
lecherheda1325
lickerousnessc1380
lecherness?c1510
caterwauling1530
ruttery1567
cockishness1573
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routerya1600
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catting1681
tomcatting1886
whorehopping1916
skirt patrol1941
skirt-chasing1950
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] > associating with loose women
whoring1563
wenching1609
whoremasterly1609
pornerastic1870
whorehopping1954
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > lecherous
lecherous1303
lickerous1377
cocky1549
cockish?1555
lickering1578
codding1594
salt1598
lickerish1599
rewish1617
tentiginous1631
liquorsome1656
salacious1661
lechering1693
horny1889
horn-mad1893
tomcat1899
whorehopping1954
1916 H. N. Cary Slang of Venery I. 182 To go down the line, to go whore hopping.
1942 N. Algren Never come Morning (1996) i. i. 25 I say let's get half a dog by Rostenkowski's..'n go whorehoppin' afters by Mama Tomek.
1954 F. Yerby Benton's Row iii. iv. 325 Anybody who tells you he wasn't scared is a whorehopping son of a liar.
1987 Times Reporter (Dover, Ohio) 17 May (Focus section) d1/5 I don't approve of any social contact between a man and a woman outside of marriage. Because no matter how it starts, it'll end up in whore-hopping.
2016 @UnusualTheory 22 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 17 Apr. 2019) D.C. is full of warmongering, whorehopping, elitist shitheads.
whore-hunt v. rare intransitive to use prostitutes; to search for a prostitute or sexual partner.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > associate with loose woman
whore1547
whore-hunt1597
wench1599
palliardize1619
smock1719
womanize1893
tart1948
1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xviii. 306 He went apart into Auignion, & there staied of purpose to do nothing but whore hunt.
1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxiii, in Poems 18 He..Wh–re-hunting amang groves o' myrtles.
1991 W. T. Vollman Whores for Gloria iii. 12 He was on the street and it was dark and he was whore-hunting.
whore hunter n. a man who seeks out prostitutes or uses prostitutes frequently or habitually; a lecherous or sexually promiscuous man.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > frequenting prostitutes > one who
whore hunter?1506
strumpetier1633
drabbera1640
chippy chaser1887
mush1972
?1506 Thystorye vii. Wyse Maysters Rome (new ed.) sig. Diiiv Good felowes venge me on ye olde cursed horehunter & rybaude.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 666/1 Scortatores, which signifieth in englishe whoore hunters.
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 81 A notorious drunkard, whorehunter, cousiner, vsurer, &c.
1891 E. H. Schumm tr. K. Heinzen Rights of Women & Sexual Relations 59 The degraded feminine sex is sufficiently grateful to recognize the blessing of having fops instead of men, dancing partners instead of friends, whore-hunters instead of husbands, [etc.]
1992 M. Bishop in M. Flinn & G. Garrett Elvis in Oz 405 The new apartment was better. It was on a busy street. No place for dope hunters and whore hunters to park.
whore-hunting n. and adj. (a) n. the action of seeking out prostitutes; the action or practice of frequently or habitually using prostitutes; lecherous or sexually promiscuous behaviour; also figurative; (b) adj. that seeks out prostitutes; that frequently or habitually uses prostitutes; lecherous, sexually promiscuous.In quot. 1714: the action or practice of seeking out prostitutes in order to punish or fine them for immoral behaviour.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > womanizing or associating with loose women
whore-playa1325
whoring1530
whore-huntinga1533
whoremonging1549
palliardy1568
queanry1568
queaning1569
harloting1575
wenching1590
whorism1598
coney-catching1616
whoremastery1618
woman palaver1803
molrowing1860
whorehopping1916
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > spying after whores to extort money
whore-hunting1714
a1533 J. Frith Mirroure (?1536) ii. sig. A v v Yf..the watcheman be a slepe,..or gone..a whorehuntinge.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. ii. sig. H.viv/1 That is spirituall adulterie & whore-hunting, when men doe partly loue and worship God, and yet..giue reuerence to straunge..Gods.
a1591 H. Smith Poore Mans Teares (1592) 80 Like vnto the whore-hunting Iudges of Samaria.
1620 ‘Kinde Kit of Kingstone’ Westward for Smelts sig. D3v Her Husband..had vsed to goe on whore-hunting in the night.
1714 A. Ramsay Elegy John Cowper iii Of Whore-hunting he gat his Fill, And made be 't mony a Pint and Gill.
1931 R. Campbell Georgiad i. 15 Lovelorn poets..troop whore-hunting down the country lanes.
2001 D. Levine & M. Wood Avant Guide: N.Y. City vii. 192 Long home to..whore-hunting curb crawlers, these blustery stretches in the low 20s have been speedily gentrified into one of Manhattan's coolest neighborhoods.
2011 @jaco_vanderwalt 16 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 6 June 2019) Out for a spot of whore-hunting with my bro's in Arcadia. Great times :).
whore-keeper n. (a) a man who frequently or habitually uses prostitutes; a sexually promiscuous man; (b) a pimp, a madam (madam n. 5).
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > womanizing or associating with loose women > one who
horlinga1200
holourc1230
whore-mana1325
putourc1390
putroura1425
whoremastera1425
whoremonger?a1472
putyer1477
whoredomerc1485
holarda1500
whore-keeper1530
mutton-monger1532
smell-smock?1545
stallion1553
woman-louper1568
limb-lifter1579
Lusty Laurence1582
punker1582
wencher1593
womanist1608
belly-bumper1611
sheep-biter1611
stringer1613
fleshmongera1616
hunt-smock1624
whorer1624
womanizer1626
woman errant1628
mongera1637
linen-lifter1652
whorster1654
whorehopper1664
cousin1694
smocker1708
mutton-master1729
woman dangler1850
masher1872
chippy chaser1887
chaser1894
stud1895
molrower1896
skirt-chaser1942
1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Biijv If any synne agenst ye doctrine of Christ..so yt he be a dronckarde & an horekeper.
1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 68 There shall not be a whore among the daughters of Israell, nor a whore-keeper among the sonnes of Israel.
1985 C. Martin Bolt: Lone Star Stud ii. 20 ‘She's nothin' but a damned whore-keeper.’ ‘A sinful madam, that's what she is.’
2001 J. Mosher Last Buffalo Hunter vi. 68 Your dad wasn't maybe the whore-keeper I was in my day, but he got around a little.
whore-man n. a man who frequently or habitually uses prostitutes; a lecherous or sexually promiscuous man; a pimp. [With quot. a1325 compare Old Icelandic hórmaðr and hórkarl, both in sense ‘adulterer’.]
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > womanizing or associating with loose women > one who
horlinga1200
holourc1230
whore-mana1325
putourc1390
putroura1425
whoremastera1425
whoremonger?a1472
putyer1477
whoredomerc1485
holarda1500
whore-keeper1530
mutton-monger1532
smell-smock?1545
stallion1553
woman-louper1568
limb-lifter1579
Lusty Laurence1582
punker1582
wencher1593
womanist1608
belly-bumper1611
sheep-biter1611
stringer1613
fleshmongera1616
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whorer1624
womanizer1626
woman errant1628
mongera1637
linen-lifter1652
whorster1654
whorehopper1664
cousin1694
smocker1708
mutton-master1729
woman dangler1850
masher1872
chippy chaser1887
chaser1894
stud1895
molrower1896
skirt-chaser1942
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 4072 Ðo seide god to moysen, ‘Ðe mestres of ðise hore-men,..Ðe bidde ic hangen ðat he ben.’
1982 T. Thompson Celebrity v. xviii. 297 Tell you what, son... You be my whore man. Make us some cock ‘n’ cunt money.
2019 @swalters5 4 June in twitter.com (6 June 2019) An immigrant house wrecking mistress steals an idiot whoreman and gets him to leave his wife to marry her.
whore-mistress n. now archaic a woman who runs a brothel; a madam (madam n. 5).
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel-keeper
bawd1362
bordellera1393
mother1596
brothel1604
brothel master1608
factoress1611
cock bawd1632
brothel keeper1710
padrona1744
case keeper1757
madame1871
madam1879
whore-mistress?1885
whorehouse madam1916
?1885 Punjab Rec. 1884 19 (Civil Judgm.) 261 To sanction such claims seems to be a very different matter from sanctioning a custom which enables a whore-mistress..to ask the Courts to aid her in obtaining one class of the profits of her infamous trade.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 494 Bella Cohen, a massive whoremistress enters.
1969 A. Marin Rise with Wind xii. 154 Consejo..works for a whoremistress we call Tía Concha.
2013 K. R. Abell Shadows of Revenge iii. 164 Then I became a whore mistress. I recruited and turned out women into the trade.
whore-pipe n. slang (now archaic and rare) the penis.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis
weapona1000
tarsec1000
pintleOE
cock?c1335
pillicock?c1335
yard1379
arrowa1382
looma1400
vergea1400
instrumentc1405
fidcocka1475
privya1500
virile member (or yard)?1541
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Jack1604
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sex1664
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nervea1680
whore-pipe1684
Roger1689
pudding1693
handle?1731
machine1749
shaft1772
jock1790
poker1811
dickyc1815
Johnny?1833
organ1833
intromittent apparatus1836
root1846
Johnson1863
Peter1870
John Henry1874
dickc1890
dingusc1890
John Thomasc1890
old fellowc1890
Aaron's rod1891
dingle-dangle1893
middle leg1896
mole1896
pisser1896
micky1898
baby-maker1902
old man1902
pecker1902
pizzle1902
willy1905
ding-dong1906
mickey1909
pencil1916
dingbatc1920
plonkerc1920
Johna1922
whangera1922
knob1922
tube1922
ding1926
pee-pee1927
prong1927
pud1927
hose1928
whang1928
dong1930
putz1934
porkc1935
wiener1935
weenie1939
length1949
tadger1949
winkle1951
dinger1953
winky1954
dork1961
virilia1962
rig1964
wee-wee1964
Percy1965
meat tool1966
chopper1967
schlong1967
swipe1967
chode1968
trouser snake1968
ding-a-ling1969
dipstick1970
tonk1970
noonies1972
salami1977
monkey1978
langer1983
wanker1987
1684 T. Creech tr. Horace Satyrs i. ii in tr. Horace Odes, Satyrs, & Epist. 378 Suppose his Whore-Pipe now being vext at this, Should ask him, did I want a Noble Miss, A Whore of Quality to cool my Flame? No, I had been content with meaner Game.
1718 Cabinet of Love (new ed.) in Earl of Rochester et al. Wks. (new ed.) II. 218 (title) Lord Rochester against his whore-pipe.
1992 K. Michaels Legacy of Rose i. v. 65 Wheezing and groaning as he humps his wrinkled whorepipe up and down in your pasty white body.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > womanizing or associating with loose women
whore-playa1325
whoring1530
whore-huntinga1533
whoremonging1549
palliardy1568
queanry1568
queaning1569
harloting1575
wenching1590
whorism1598
coney-catching1616
whoremastery1618
woman palaver1803
molrowing1860
whorehopping1916
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 530 Caymes sunes wrogten vn-lage, Wið breðere wifes hore-plage.
whore shop n. slang a brothel.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel
houseOE
bordelc1300
whorehousec1330
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stivec1386
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shop?1515
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common house1545
bawdy-house1552
hothouse1556
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brothela1591
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trugging place1591
nunnery1593
vaulting-house1596
leaping house1598
Pickt-hatch1598
garden house1606
vaulting-school1606
flesh-shambles1608
whore-sty1621
bagnioa1640
public house1640
harlot-house1641
warrena1649
academy1650
call house1680
coney burrow1691
case1699
nanny-house1699
house of ill reputea1726
smuggling-ken1725
kip1766
Corinth1785
disorderly house1809
flash-house1816
dress house1823
nanny-shop1825
house of tolerance1842
whore shop1843
drum1846
introducing house1846
khazi1846
fast house1848
harlotry1849
maison de tolérance1852
knocking-shop1860
lupanar1864
assignation house1870
parlour house1871
hook shop1889
sporting house1894
meat house1896
massage parlour1906
case house1912
massage establishment1921
moll-shop1923
camp1925
notch house1926
creep joint1928
slaughterhouse1928
maison de convenance1930
cat-house1931
Bovril1936
maison close1939
joy-house1940
rib joint1940
gaff1947
maison de passe1960
rap parlour1973
1843 Cambr. Independent Press 27 May Butt went away to some ‘whore shop’.
a1864 J. Clare Later Poems (1964) 40 My life hath been one chain of contradictions Madhouses Prisons wh-re shops.
1938 V. S. Pritchett You make your own Life 79 What a town like this wants is a couple of good whore shops and a factory.
1972 A. MacVicar Golden Venus Affair vi. 67 I hate The Golden Venus... It's just a whoreshop.
2018 @quartocracks 1 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 6 June 2019) He ran an illegal immigrant whore shop out of New York, didn't he? Oh, he called it a modeling agency!
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel
houseOE
bordelc1300
whorehousec1330
stew1362
bordel housec1384
stewc1384
stivec1386
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bordelryc1450
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shop?1515
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common house1545
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hothouse1556
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brothela1591
trugging house1591
trugging place1591
nunnery1593
vaulting-house1596
leaping house1598
Pickt-hatch1598
garden house1606
vaulting-school1606
flesh-shambles1608
whore-sty1621
bagnioa1640
public house1640
harlot-house1641
warrena1649
academy1650
call house1680
coney burrow1691
case1699
nanny-house1699
house of ill reputea1726
smuggling-ken1725
kip1766
Corinth1785
disorderly house1809
flash-house1816
dress house1823
nanny-shop1825
house of tolerance1842
whore shop1843
drum1846
introducing house1846
khazi1846
fast house1848
harlotry1849
maison de tolérance1852
knocking-shop1860
lupanar1864
assignation house1870
parlour house1871
hook shop1889
sporting house1894
meat house1896
massage parlour1906
case house1912
massage establishment1921
moll-shop1923
camp1925
notch house1926
creep joint1928
slaughterhouse1928
maison de convenance1930
cat-house1931
Bovril1936
maison close1939
joy-house1940
rib joint1940
gaff1947
maison de passe1960
rap parlour1973
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 196 [Churches] turne[d] to barnes, stables, hogsties, and that which is worse, whore-sties.
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society > authority > punishment > fine > [noun] > for fornication or adultery
lairwitec1230
letherwite1297
lecherwitea1425
whore toll1545
buttock-mail?1552
stool-mail1837
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] > for immoral activity
whore toll1545
1545 M. Coverdale tr. Defence Poore Christen Man sig. Eiijv Romishe prestes..take harlottes..whan they will..and aske no question for conscience sake, so that they paye the bishope the whore toll.
C2. Compounds with whore's.
whore's bath n. (also whore bath) slang (originally U.S. Military) a brief wash limited chiefly to the armpits and genitals, usually with makeshift facilities.
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1944 A. J. Liebling Road back to Paris iii. vi. 242 The five-gallon [gasoline] can..may also serve..as a bathtub. The bather fills it with water, removes one article of clothing at a time, rubs the water hastily over the surface thus exposed, and replaces the garment before taking off another one. This is called taking a whore's bath.
1995 E. Leonard Riding Rap (1998) xix. 165 He said, ‘I can't take a shower with these chains on.’ ‘Do the best you can... Take a whore bath.’
2017 City A.M. (Nexis) 1 June (Bespoke Mag.) There's no shower, so I have to give myself a whore's bath over the sink.
whore's bird n. (also whoresbird or wosbird) now archaic and rare the child of a whore; a bastard, an illegitimate child; (also) as a general term of abuse or contempt; cf. bird n. 9.
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1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 18 Neuer were the sonnes of Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, of Moyses, Eleazar, and Phinees,..so pranked vp with tabernacles and lyghtes, sensynges and massynges, as these whores byrdes.
1673 J. Wade Vinegar & Mustard (1873) 17 Thou was a base whore's bird.
1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Amphitryon i. i, in tr. Plautus Comedies 9 They'd set some sturdy Whores-bird to..beat out ha'f a dozen o' my Teeth.
a1701 C. Sedley tr. D. A. de Brueys & J. Palaprat Grumbler i. vi, in Wks. (1722) II. 156 I will first let you see how I am serv'd by this Whoresbird.
1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. iv. ix. 234 D—mn you all together, for a pack of whores-birds as you are!
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ii. 42 ‘Imp'dent old wosbird!’ says he, ‘I'll break the bald head on un.’
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxi. 3 Jack Dollop, a 'hor's-bird of a fellow.
1946 W. Graham Demelza (1977) iii. i. 246 What you got in the choir, eh? Naught but drunkers and whores' birds!
whore's kitling n. now archaic the child of a whore; a bastard, an illegitimate child; (also) as a general term of abuse or contempt.
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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Whores-kitling, a Bastard.
?a1723 Tripos delivered at Univ. Dublin, 1688 in J. Barrett Ess. Earlier Part Life Swift (1808) 68 Bid your mistress go hang herself: and look for her money, you whore's kitling.
2001 M. Jecks Tournament of Blood (2013) 329 Tell us what you saw, you damned whore's kitling.
Derivatives
whorelike adj. resembling (that of) a whore; befitting a whore.
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1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Dviiv Our wiues do passe their whoris, in whorelyke deckynge.
?1785 Comical Sayings Mr. Pettigrew 4 in Scotish Merrim. (1793) I never saw so many whore like hussiies [sic] running after one poor fellow.
1974 H. J. Parker View from Boys 213 ‘A right scrubber’ is a girl who's rough-looking, whorelike.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
whorev.
/hɔː/, U.S. /hɔr/ 1. † a. transitive. To be unfaithful to (one's spouse, Christ, etc.). Obsolete. rare.
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a1400 Ancrene Riwle (Pepys) (1976) 170 For þi crist loueþ more his lemman, for þeiȝ his lemman haue hored [c1230 Corpus Cambr. forhori] hym wiþ þe fende fele ȝeres & daies, his mercy is to hir euere ȝare... Haue his lemman hored [c1230 Corpus Cambr. forhoret] hym wiþ neuer so many dedlich synnes als sone as sche comeþ aȝein to hym he makeþ hir newe Maiden.
b. intransitive. To commit adultery or fornication; to behave in a sexually promiscuous manner. Esp. of a man: to engage in sexual activity with prostitutes. Chiefly of a woman: to act or behave as a whore; to work as a prostitute. Also figurative. In later use frequently with around.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > associate with loose woman
whore1547
whore-hunt1597
wench1599
palliardize1619
smock1719
womanize1893
tart1948
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (intransitive)] > practise prostitution
to walk the street(s)1530
to play the harlot (formerly also harlots)1535
whore1547
strumpc1550
strumpet1627
prostitute1631
to be (also to go) on (or upon) the street(s)1754
hustle1930
ho1972
tom1981
1547 tr. A. de Marcourt Bk. Marchauntes (new ed.) sig. a.viiiv And than..thei dranke,..and plaied, I dare not saye whored, for eury thynge went forwarde wyth them.
1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. iv. 203 Wee drinke, wee eate, wee surfet, wee sweare, we play, we daunce, we whore.
1615 W. Goddard Neaste of Waspes xcvii. sig. Givv Sheel fight, whore, drinke, vntill shee cannot see.
1643 W. Bridge Serm. Voluntiers Norwich 5 They thinke him a foole or a child that will not drink and be drunke, and whore.
1682 Satyr to Muse 15 Against the Court, and David's-self he Roard, How ill he Govern'd, and how worse he W——d.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xiii. 102 To cheat, whore, betray, get drunk, do all these things decently, this is true wisdom, and elegance of taste.
1766 Midnight Spy v. 43 The gay courtezan with her pockets lined with gold, may whore with impunity.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 2 Hold ye the Faith..; Whoring not with visions.
1959 S. Longstreet Crime i. ix. 104 I don't care how many little bitches you've slept with! I don't care who you've whored around with!
1994 C. McCann in D. Bolger Picador Bk. Contemp. Irish Fiction 540 His Momma was whoring around while his father was off out west, working the oilfields.
2007 Independent Extra (Nexis) 15 Mar. 12 They fought, drank and whored like there was no tomorrow.
c. transitive. To spend (one's money, time, life, etc.) in whoring. Frequently with away. In quot. 1682: to whore to excess; cf. to —— one's heart out at heart n., int., and adv. Phrases 6c(a).
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > unchaste [verb (transitive)] > spend/bring in/by womanizing
to wench out1599
whore1651
1651 T. Violet Advancem. Merchandize 123 Such Merchants or others..as have Diced or Whored away their Estates, and then break in other men's debts.
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1710) 53 Their Officers..Had dic'd and drunk, and whor'd their Pay.
1682 A. Behn City-heiress i. i. 3 He..made it death to boast; so that then a man might whore his heart out, and no body the wiser.
1744 J. Breuhowse Highland Spectator v. 54 It is all I could recover from one I intrusted to collect the Money for me, who, I imagine, has drank or whor'd it, or spent it some Way or other.
1852 Morning Post 8 Jan. 6/2 I have heard her accuse Captain Cumming of having whored all her money away.
2017 @kikiigram 24 July in twitter.com (accessed 19 June 2019) Older bro is turning 30 next week and is heading to his second divorce and whoring his life away.
2.
a. transitive. To debauch or seduce (a woman); to treat (a woman) like a whore. Now somewhat rare.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > deprive of chastity [verb (transitive)] > a woman > bring to condition of whore
forwhorec1175
harlotize1589
whore1604
strumpet1608
prostitute1658
bejade?1706
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 65 He that hath kild my King, and whor'd my mother. View more context for this quotation
a1692 T. Shadwell Volunteers (1693) iii. i. 32 Did you mean to Whore my Daughter?
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 224 She ask'd her,..if I was whor'd yet! There's a Word for a Lady's Mouth!
1772 Coll. Orig. Scots Songs, Poems 12 Quoth Nelly, I'm afraid You mean to ruin me... So, Jockey, now adieu, Elsewhere your love pursue, For I cannot, will not, No, nor shall not, E'er be whor'd by you.
1969 A. Hunter Gently Coloured iii. 33 Some friend squeezing you dry, whoring your sister.
b. transitive. figurative. To dishonour, corrupt, or commodify (something), esp. for personal or financial gain; to seek to profit from (something), esp. in a shameless or mercenary way; to put (one's personal qualities, talents, etc.) to an unworthy or morally dubious use for personal or financial gain. Also reflexive: to debase or demean (oneself) for profit or advantage. Cf. to whore out 1 at Phrasal verbs.
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1682 J. Dryden Medall 16 The Pander of the Peoples hearts..Whose blandishments a Loyal Land have whor'd, And broke the Bonds she plighted to her Lord.
1878 C. C. P. Clark Commonw. Reconstructed iii. 48 The last constitution of Pennsylvania has emasculated corporations lest her legislature should be whored.
1959 C. Bukowski Let. 3 Oct. in Screams from Balcony (1998) 12 Success is wonderful if we can achieve it without whoring our concepts.
2001 Book Nov. 62/2 Not only does he exaggerate the Indian ‘exoticism’ that embarrasses him, but he whores his heritage by writing radio scripts for the BBC on Third World subjects.
2006 News of World (Nexis) 15 Oct. Shimmy is whoring his book on a signing tour this week.
2008 Irish Times (Nexis) 6 Aug. (Motors) 2 Waits has steadfastly refused throughout his career to whore himself, describing having his work appear in ads as like having a cow's udder sewn to the side of his face.
c. transitive. To put (a person) to work as a prostitute; to offer (one's body, etc.) for sex, indiscriminately or in return for payment. Frequently reflexive: to work as a prostitute; to act in a sexually promiscuous manner. Cf. to whore out 2 at Phrasal verbs.
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1702 Nature of Women in J. Dryden Sylvæ (ed. 3) 215 When she is young she whores her self for Sport, And when she's old she bawds for her Support.
1939 Strange Death Adolf Hitler xxvii. 366 Put me in jail too, torture me, kill me—Konrad would be prouder of me for that, than whoring myself to you, as you wish.
1952 W. B. Huie Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) ii. 22 If a woman is only a healthy, hot, physical animal, willing, for comfort's sake, to whore herself to one man or a thousand, she isn't tragic.
1987 H. Cook Oracle (1989) xli. 308 She might have whored her body through half the army.
1995 M. B. Read Chopper 5: Pulp Faction v. 69 She loved Mickey, but he had whored her since she was 12. As a kid, he'd sold her for anything that he wanted.
2013 @mrs_javert 24 June in twitter.com (accessed 19 June 2019) He discovered she whored herself to pay for his school.
3. intransitive. figurative. To pursue or seek after something false, unworthy, inappropriate, etc.Frequently in allusion to Deuteronomy 31:16, Exodus 34:15, etc. Compare earlier to go a whoring at whoring n.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > attempt [verb (transitive)] > strive for or after > something false or unworthy
whore1608
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > aspire [verb (intransitive)] > pursue something false or unworthy
whore1608
1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. D1v It signifies Adultery in fat ones, who (aboue their owne) whoring after strange Gods make their Religion ride hackney to hell.
1730 J. Ilive Layman's Vindic. Christian Relig. i. ii. 88 Thus they became enemies to the sons of Gideon, and followed, or whored after other gods.
1863 Guernsey (Ohio) Jeffersonian 20 Mar. My friend..and other Democrats..who even then in their hearts were whoring after strange gods, left the Democratic party and went over to the Republicans.
1913 E. Pound Let. 13 Aug. (1971) 21 The unspeakable vulgo will I suppose hear of him [sc. F. M. Hueffer] after our deaths. In the meantime they whore after their Bennetts and their Galsworthys and their unspeakable canaille.
1972 Language 48 425 I do not accept Chomsky's conception of social scientists as universally whoring after the surface features of other sciences, neglecting all fundamental problems, and taking refuge in spurious precision and trivialities.
2016 Weekly Standard (Nexis) 25 Apr. During the days before it began whoring after youthful readers, the New York Times ran many notably dull headlines.
Phrases
P1. to whore one's way: to proceed through a period, around a place, to some goal, etc., while behaving in a sexually promiscuous manner.
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1960 Harper's Mag. Mar. 121/1 Musicians lived much as they always had, singing for their keep, like Blind Lemon Jefferson, who drank and whored his way through life.
1993 Evening Standard (Nexis) 1 Dec. 41 Shepherd bragged he had ‘whored his way around the world’.
2017 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 22 May 13 She plays a woman who has been ‘cast out of her parish’ and flees to London where, according to Duff she ‘whores her way to the top’.
P2. to whore it up: to behave in a sexually promiscuous manner.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > be promiscuous
to play legerdeheel1605
to put it about1817
to do the (also a) naughty1902
to fool around1923
sleep1928
to play around1929
alleycat1937
to screw around1939
bed-hop1943
tom1950
horse1953
to whore it up1956
swing1964
1956 D. Walker Harry Black xi. 164 My God, he thought, why the hell should I let Miriam divorce me, whoring it up with all and sundry?
2003 M. Ford My Fake Wedding (2004) xx. 306 I don't have an arseful of cellulite quite yet so I might as well whore it up one last time.
Phrasal verbs
to whore out
1. transitive. figurative. To dishonour, corrupt, or commodify (something), esp. for personal or financial gain; to seek to profit from (something), esp. in a shameless or mercenary way; to put (one's personal qualities, talents, etc.) to an unworthy or morally dubious use for personal or financial gain. Also reflexive: to debase or demean (oneself) for profit or advantage.
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1931 R. Campbell Georgiad ii. 36 Then I may quit my lyre,..And turning pimp, whore out my withered Muse To judge the limericks in the reviews.
1974 R. Lanham Style vii. 128 The media, the only agency that can educate in a mass society, have been whored out for profit.
1999 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 1 Apr. 3 I'm just here to whore myself out to the press and then I leave.
2005 C. Aaron in W. Hermes & S. Michel Spin i. 18 They'd shown how far an underground, punk-inspired rock band could go within the industry without whoring out its artistic integrity in any obvious way.
2006 Daily Toreador (Texas Tech.) 14 Sept. in University Wire (Nexis) Do I want to splurge and go for the brand-spanking new movie that the store is whoring out across three sections of shelves?
2018 Hobart (Tasmania) Mercury (Nexis) 20 Apr. 19 Do not allow your lovely country to be whored out by the greedy tourist industry.
2. transitive. To put (a person) to work as a prostitute; to offer (one's body, etc.) for sex, indiscriminately or in return for payment. Frequently reflexive: to work as a prostitute; to act in a sexually promiscuous manner.
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1952 M. Harrison Darkened Room 86 There are, indeed, few things that the aristocrat has not done for money: marry his sister to a coon, whore out his wife, sodomize his sons.
1973 W. Wells Tycoons & Locusts iv. 51 Faye whores herself out—but not to Tod—precisely because ‘those men were complete strangers’.
1998 D. Baldacci Simple Truth liv. 415 His mother was a crack addict, and when he was eight or nine she would whore him out for drug money.
2012 G. Herren Murder in Rue Urselines (e-book, accessed 29 Aug. 2019) xiv I could have just as easily wound up a lost boy in the Quarter, dancing at the Brass Rail and whoring myself out to older men for dollar bills.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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