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whore

/hawr, hohr or, often, hoor/US // hɔr, hoʊr or, often, hʊər //UK // (hɔː) //

妓女,娼妓,婊子,娼妇

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a person who engages in promiscuous sex for money; prostitute.
    • : Disparaging and Offensive. a person who is sexually promiscuous.
    • : a person who sacrifices personal principles or uses someone or something in a base or unworthy manner, usually for money: a greedy publicity whore.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    whored, whor·ing.

    • : to act as a whore.
    • : to consort with whores.
    • : to seek after something that is base or unworthy: those who practice idolatry and whore after other gods.
v.有主动词 verb
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    whored, whor·ing.

    • : to put to a base or unworthy use: He’s whoring out his skills by writing for popular magazines.
    • : Obsolete. to make a whore of; corrupt; debauch.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • When protesting with Women in Black or Peace Now, I might hear the words “Whore!”

  • Although the word is increasingly adopted by defiant sign-waving activists, "Whore" has the power to hurt us at a deep level.

  • Thence back, putting in at Dr. Whore's, where I saw his lady, a very fine woman.

  • The production of The Whore of Babylon marks the low-water mark of his unfortunate career.

  • Peace, you flead Whore, thou hast a mouth like a Bloodhound, here comes a night-shade.

  • Now consider what has been said, and Heaven give you Grace to put it in practise; that is to play the Whore.

  • The first that stood upon her Pantables, as being chief, was the Whore, and thus it was she manag'd her Cause.