whorish
/ˈhɔɹɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.86 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or befitting a whore.
Example Sentences
- "Some pop singers try to compensate for lack of talent with whorish outfits and gyrations."
- "You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins / Are pleased to breed out your inheritors:"
- "[…] I am broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me, and with their eyes which goe a whoring after their idoles: […]."
- "[…] Lish’s mother, the divorcee, was a beauty and a whorish flirt."
- "Vince, a natty 23-year-old financial analyst from Hoboken, made no bones about his agenda. "I love it here, it's so whorish," he said."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ Old English hōre Middle English hore English whore Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English whorish From whore + -ish.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhɔɹɪʃ/