whore
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
whore
n 1: a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money [syn:
{prostitute}, {cocotte}, {whore}, {harlot}, {bawd}, {tart},
{cyprian}, {fancy woman}, {working girl}, {sporting lady},
{lady of pleasure}, {woman of the street}]
v 1: work as a prostitute
2: have unlawful sex with a whore
3: compromise oneself for money or other gains; "She whored
herself to Hollywood"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Whore \Whore\ (h[=o]r), n. [OE. hore, AS. h[=o]re; akin to D.
hoer, hoere, G. hure, OHG. huora, huorra, Icel. h[=o]ra, Dan.
hore, Sw. hora, Goth. h[=o]rs an adulterer, AS. h[=o]r
adultery, OHG. huor, and probably to L. carus dear. Cf.
{Charity}.]
A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men,
especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a
prostitute; a harlot. --Wyclif.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Harlot; courtesan; prostitute; strumpet.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
98 Moby Thesaurus words for "whore":
B-girl, Cyprian, Jezebel, Paphian, backslider, bad egg, bad lot,
bad woman, baggage, bawd, be promiscuous, bitch, black sheep,
broad, call girl, chase women, chippy, clitoromaniac, cocotte,
commit adultery, coquette, courtesan, daughter of joy, debauch,
degenerate, demimondaine, demimonde, demirep, dissipate, drab,
easy lay, easy woman, erring sister, fallen angel, fallen woman,
fancy woman, fille de joie, flirt, floozy, fornicate, frail sister,
gold digger, grisette, grovel, harlot, harridan, hetaera, hooker,
hussy, hustler, hysteromaniac, jade, kept woman, lecher,
loose woman, lost sheep, lost soul, meretrix, miscreant, moll,
nightwalker, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, painted woman, paphian,
pervert, philander, pickup, pimp, poule, profligate, prostitute,
quean, rake, recidivist, recreant, reprobate, scapegrace,
scarlet woman, sleep around, slut, sorry lot, stew, streetwalker,
strumpet, swing, tart, trollop, trull, unfortunate woman,
uteromaniac, vamp, wallow, wanton, wench, white slave, womanize
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