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\ ˈhȯr

, ˈhu̇r

\

1
somewhat old-fashioned

: a person who engages in sexual intercourse for pay : prostitute

2
offensive

: a promiscuous or immoral woman

3

: a male who engages in sexual acts for money

4

: a venal or unscrupulous person

1

: to have unlawful sexual intercourse as or with a prostitute

2

: to pursue a faithless, unworthy, or idolatrous desire

obsolete

: to corrupt by lewd intercourse : debauch

Noun

For writers, to blurb or not to blurb can be a tricky matter. … Blurb too often, or include too many blurbs on your book, and you might get called a blurb whore .

— Rachel Donadio , New York Times Book Review , 17 Aug. 2008

It was only his vain desire to gain the money he needed to purchase the freedom of his beloved Sarah, a whore in a Sturgeon Street brothel, that had led him to offer his sword in the murderous service of Buljan …

— Michael Chabon , "Gentlemen of the Road,"

in New York Times Magazine , 18 Feb. 2007

I know one guy who became a television writer simply because it afforded him the opportunity to write on a cop show and name all the strippers, crack whores , and nude female corpses after his mother.

— Rob Long , National Review , 19 Feb. 2001

Verb

Babe Ruth, who could cuss, guzzle and whore to outdo any sailor of legend, was also the most genial and accommodating of men.

— Stephen Jay Gould , New York Times Book Review , 7 May 1989

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Definition of whore (Entry 2 of 2)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
1554, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1

Middle English hore , from Old English hōre ; akin to Old Norse hōra whore, hōrr adulterer, Latin carus dear — more at charity
“Whore.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whore. Accessed 16 Oct. 2022.
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