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whore

nomverbecourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//hɔː//
  • États-Unis//hɔɚ//
  • //ho(ː)ɚ//
  • //hoə//

Synonym of prostitute: a person (especially a woman) who offers sexual services for payment.

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  1. 1

    Synonym of prostitute: a person (especially a woman) who offers sexual services for payment.

    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

  2. 2

    A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut.

    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.

  3. 3

    A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.

    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!

  4. 4

    A person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.

    Vidal is at once more detached and more preoccupied with his own view, celebrating an aristocracy of sensibility constantly thwarted and ignored by those mere whores after fame, the statesmen and politicians.

    By that time, Tejeda had already been accused of beating his wife, abandoning his children, living in sin with another woman, being a whore for the insurance lobby, and accepting bribes.

    a shameless hack—such a whore for the money—that he wouldn't even lend his name to his creations.

    I don't want to be a media whore," says Babydol. "I don't need to 'sell' my record — it will sell because it's good or won't if it's not

  5. 5

    A contemptible person.

    "Begone," Clare shouted. She could not bring herself to kill in cold blood. "Begone, or I'll shoot." "Idiot whore," he shouted back. "You would not dare."

    I don't need that Lamont Cranston to tell me. Every Irishman knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. We've known since the time of that rotten ould whore, Elizabeth the Bloody First!

    Saxon curses rang in her ears. Dane, they yelled, Viking whore. We will have revenge on you.

Étymologie

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.

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  1. 1

    To prostitute oneself.

  2. 2

    To engage the services of a prostitute.

  3. 3

    To pimp; to pander.

  4. 4

    To promote shamelessly.

    Did you see him on that chat show, whoring his new book?

  5. 5

    To pursue false gods.

  6. 6

    To pursue false goals.

    As for those whose hearts go a whoring after the world, and who set their affections on the things of the earth, they cannot love his appearing

    Whoring after fame, rushing into print, "scoring a scoop,"— alas! some scientists are too human.

    "That Jeroboam. He whores after power." "And you, my son, lust more decorously?"

    Is there any distinction between a nation that whores after a golden calf and one that whores after a black Cadillac?

  7. 7

    argotTo overuse something.

    BTW, that guy whuz still an asshole - camping the BFG and whoring the quad - I usually leave BFG maps but stuck around on that one and suicided quite a bit (3 times I got to about -10 frags, then came back to 0...).

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Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).