Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A prostitute.
- n. A person considered sexually promiscuous.
- n. A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.
- v. To associate or have sexual relations with prostitutes or a prostitute.
- v. To accept payment in exchange for sexual relations.
- v. To compromise one's principles for personal gain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A woman who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot; a courtezan; a strumpet; hence, in abuse, any unchaste woman; an adulteress or fornicatress.
- To prostitute one's body for hire; in general, to practise lewdness.
- To corrupt by lewd intercourse.
Wiktionary
- n. A prostitute.
- n. pejorative A person who is considered to be sexually promiscuous (see also: slut).
- n. A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.
- n. A person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.
- n. A contemptible person.
- v. intransitive To prostitute oneself.
- v. intransitive To engage the services of a prostitute.
- v. transitive To pimp; to pander.
- v. intransitive To pursue false gods.
- v. intransitive To pursue false goals.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.
- v. To have unlawful sexual intercourse; to practice lewdness.
- v. (Script.) To worship false and impure gods.
- v. rare To corrupt by lewd intercourse; to make a whore of; to debauch.
WordNet 3.0
- v. compromise oneself for money or other gains
- v. work as a prostitute
- v. have unlawful sex with a whore
- n. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
Etymologies
- From Old English hōre, from Proto-Germanic *hōrōn, from Proto-Indo-European *kāro- (“dear”); cognate with Old Norse hóra ("whore"), hórr ("adulterer"), German Hure ("whore"), Middle High German huore, Old High German huora, Dutch hoer. Non-Germanic cognates include Latin cārus ("dear"), Albanian koj ("to feed, lure, bribe") and Sanskrit काम (kāma, "love"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English hore, from Old English hōre. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term whore porne in this context is a term of slander for one guilty of sexual immorality or unfaithfulness.”
“Gucci heels, silk Chanel plaid mules with interlocking "CC"s in rhinestones, and good god, the Hermès scarf collection--it was a label whore's paradise.”
“Cause he never fucked that mannequin whore from the video store.”
“But there was a reason the word whore in Lambaneish had its double meaning of whore-celebrant.”
“She is karisma, as they say in Japanese, because she has impeccable style—well put together without being a label whore; she is self-deprecating while always appearing flawless and she is worldly.”
““Do not use the word whore in this house,” she said.”
“But, a whore is a whore, no matter how you slice it, and no matter what their going rate.”
“No, but calling a whore a whore is perfectly acceptable.”
“Calling Palin a whore is a factual analogy and will persist.”
“Calling him the son of a whore is an insult to honest, hardworking prostitutes.”
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Tweets
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erinoftheyear What's so bad about a whore? Someone's got to pay the bills. Aug 15, 2007
brtom Ah, bless your heart, for a sweet, pleasant—damn’d mischievous son of a whore.
Goldsmith, She Stoops, I Jan 8, 2007