whoring

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

嫖娼,嫖妓,嫖客,嫖娼行为

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

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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.

as inprostitution

Synonyms

For pre-20th-century women, in particular, whoring and marriage could be described as the two default positions.
But this is the common fate of ill-gotten goods, that, as they came in by covetousness, they go out by whoring.
The profs spent their course-times whoring for Whuffie, leading the seminars like encounter groups instead of lectures.
It became plain that there would be no whoring or the like for me; I was far too proud and fastidious.
Taking to other deities is continually called whoring and adultery.
For the expression is used that all Israel went a whoring after the ephod.