whore
/hɔɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of prostitute: a person (especially a woman) who offers sexual services for payment.
Derogatory
noun
A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.
Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "I come looking for a job But I get no offers Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue"
- "He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore."
- "So after he fucks the shit out of me, he tells me I'm lying about his whore not being Brad."
- "You're smart. They're all whores."
- "Dude: Since when did you become a political whore? Phil: I prefer the term political slut, thank you very much!"
Etymology
From Middle English hore, from Old English hōre, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“loved”), from *keh₂- (“to wish; desire”). Cognate with Dutch hoer, German Hure, Old Norse hóra as well as Sanskrit चारु (cā́ru, “dear”), Latin cārus (“dear, expensive”), and Irish cara (“friend”). The unetymological spelling with wh- superficially denotes a formerly standard pronunciation with an excrescent /w/ (such as in whole), but such a form is hardly found in either commentators on Early Modern English pronunciations or records of traditional dialects (which both explicitly mention its rarity or absence), therefore leaving the spelling somewhat inexplicable. However, this may be because such an excrescent /w/ was absorbed by a following /uː/ (as in words with etymological /w/ such as whom, two) after it became established in the spelling but before our earliest orthoepic records.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hɔɚ/
- British English: /hɔː/
Usage
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Derived Forms
Phrases
achievement whore
as demure as a whore at a christening
attention whore
bar whore
bottle whore
coke whore
crack whore
credit whore