Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A contemptible or detestable person.
- adj. Abominable; detestable.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A bastard: used generally in contempt, or in coarse familiarity, and without exactness of meaning.
- Bastard-like; mean; scurvy: used in contempt, or in coarse familiarity, and applied to persons or things.
Wiktionary
- n. An illegitimate child born of unwed parents.
- n. literally The son of a prostitute.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Archaic A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; -- used generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
- n. insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
Etymologies
- Compound of whore + son: the son of a whore. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It is also exceedingly amusing to note how the old adjective "whoreson" bothers M. de Chatelain, who seems to consider it a word of weight and meaning.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
““Sweet Jesu, Thomas,” Robert cried, “let me slice this evil whoreson!””
““Are you just going to leave me here to rot or are you going to give me a chance to help you bring down that miserable whoreson who calls himself my uncle?””
“You are too much for me Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch ...”
“Something like calling someone a whoreson, I suppose.”
“I saw Pinch gaping even as he hammered on the drum, and I went and danced before him, staring until he lowered his eyes, while I sang, Whoreson, whoreson, whoreson! and fizzed with laughter.”
““This whoreson talks too much,” Lucien said, then with a bellow he spurred his horse forward, swinging sword and axe in a whirl of steel.”
“Out of my way, you scurvy knave, whoreson dog, cream faced loon...”
“Thereupon his rage redoubled and he struck hand upon hand exclaiming, By Allah! in my life never saw I a whoreson like this slave; and he saith this is but a half lie!”
“Thereupon he turned away and said to himself, “If this one be a whoreson knave and deny himself, another may not prove himself such knave and whoreson.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whoreson’.
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phrontistery-w
from phrontistery.info
wack, wadmal, waftage, wafture, wagonette, wagtail, wainage, wainscot, wair, waits, wakerife, waldflute and 282 more...
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knaves, rogues and stewed prunes
The Bard had a nasty streak.
swaggering rascal, lack-linen, scurvy companion, ape of death, sanguine coward, bed-presser, huge hill of flesh, horseback-breaker, mouldy rogue, braggart vile, damned furious wight, bull's pizzle and 30 more...
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135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms
135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms =)
artless, baggage, barnacle, bawdy, beef-witted, bladder, boil-brained, bootless, brazen, cankerblossom, churlish, churrish and 123 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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ashton's Words
genocide, boingy, umwelt, zeitgeist, fungible, vorpal, spawn, discordian, fnord, surreptitious, xyzzy, corruption and 122 more...
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Name-Calling for Fun and Profit
I figured out the thing all these terms have in common, besides that they can be used as insults. They all crack me up.
drip, yahoo, dweeb, nimrod, wanker, nincompoop, weasel, skank, fussbudget, dink, twit, guttersnipe and 125 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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itsmemandy's Words
crabwise, incognito, congeal, coagulate, incinerate, immolate, appease, acquiesce, redux, secrecy, atria, shakuhachi and 114 more...
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Ye Olde Shouting Match
From a list of insulting words that you might encounter in a Middle English shouting match.
The list was given to me by my English teacher.bawdy, bunch-backed, canker-blossom, brazen, clay-brained, clotpole, churlish, dog-hearted, crutch, distempered, empty-hearted, cutpurse and 78 more...
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Insults
whoreson, unmuzzled, saucy, miscreant, prating, peevish, knavish, eye-offending, brazen, bawdy, vainglorious, hardscrabble and 15 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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