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Whore   /hɔr/   Listen
noun
Whore  n.  A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.
Synonyms: Harlot; courtesan; prostitute; strumpet.



verb
Whore  v. t.  To corrupt by lewd intercourse; to make a whore of; to debauch. (R.)



Whore  v. i.  (past & past part. whored; pres. part. whoring)  
1.
To have unlawful sexual intercourse; to practice lewdness.
2.
(Script.) To worship false and impure gods.






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"Whore" Quotes from Famous Books



... poor E—s on th' imperial whore? 'Twas but to be where Charles had been before, The fatal steel unjustly was apply'd, When not his lust offended, but his pride Too hard a penance for defeated sin, Himself shut out, and Jacob Hall ...
— The Memoirs of Count Grammont, Complete • Anthony Hamilton

... hope thou hast not made away with my Boy, hast thou? Od's death I'll hang thee, if there were never a Whore more in London, ...
— The City Bride (1696) - Or The Merry Cuckold • Joseph Harris

... sister saw her fold her children to her bosom, saying, "'Tis I who have done thus with myself and my children and have ruined my own house!" she saluted her not, but said to her, "O whore, whence haddest thou these children? Say, hast thou married unbeknown to thy sire or hast thou committed fornication?[FN157] An thou have played the piece, it behoveth thou be exemplarily punished; and if thou have married sans our knowledge, ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton

... that court, a lady of great beauty, of a presence very graceful and alluring, and a wit and behaviour that captivated those who were admitted into her presence; [to whom Charles II. made an offer of marriage]—Swift. A prostitute whore. ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. • Jonathan Swift

... Quixot, [Footnote: p. 74.] when there is not so much as one little tiny todpol of Smut, that I know of, unless he creates it—Yet I am Crambo'd with, who, with low, nauseous Bawdry fills his Plays. [Footnote: p. 208.] Again speaking of Jupiter and Alcmena— but her Lover—that is her Whore-master. [Footnote: p. 178.] And at last with a Rowzer upon Mr Congreeve's Double Dealer, where he particularly Remarks, that there are but four Ladies in his Play, and three of em are Whores; adding, withal, that 'tis a great Compliment to Quality, to tell em there is but a quarter ...
— Essays on the Stage • Thomas D'Urfey and Bossuet


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