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Meanings of
whore
in English
Portuguese
devassa
Catalan
prostituta
Back to the meaning
A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money.
hooker
tart
prostitute
harlot
cyprian
strumpet
trollop
bawd
cocotte
sporting lady
Portuguese
devassa
To offer sexual services in exchange for money.
prostitute oneself
Synonyms
Examples for "
hooker
"
hooker
tart
prostitute
harlot
cyprian
Examples for "
hooker
"
1
Ireland
hooker
Rory Best has agreed a new two-year contract with Ulster.
2
Witness his comments designed to focus attention on English
hooker
Dylan Hartley.
3
Ireland
hooker
Rory Best will captain the Barbarians side out on Saturday.
4
This was quickly followed by a Lansdowne try by
hooker
Alan Ronan.
5
We want the
hooker
setting early and the lineout in and out.
1
Some recipes, however, I prefer unmodified: my mother's Bakewell
tart
,
for example.
2
Give it a go and try this South African milk
tart
today.
3
Line the
tart
case and refrigerate for at least half an hour.
4
The debates between her and my sister grew more
tart
and violent.
5
I've often seen her here and if anyone's a
tart
it's her.'
1
Not many mothers branded their daughters with a
prostitute
's
name at birth.
2
You can feel no pity for the murderer, the thief, the
prostitute
.
3
He was the son of a Greek rhetor and a Campanian
prostitute
.
4
A
prostitute
had made an attempt on the life of a citizen.
5
But I've heard rumors already of a plot to
prostitute
the law.
1
Kratinus plainly speaks of her as a
harlot
in the following lines:
2
People polluted with this defection appear under the image of a
harlot
.
3
She arrayed herself in flesh-taking ornaments-gold ,andprecious stones, like an
harlot
.
4
Beware, I say, of the papist Eve, the
harlot
and the Jezebel.
5
How Apuleius was handled by the Bakers wife, which was a
harlot
.
1
Poor
Cyprian
is off to Marienbad and I must go with him.
2
Cyprian
Eveleth said to his sister, after a brief word of greeting.
3
Cyprian
also charges one of his deacons with fraud, extortion, and adultery.
4
Cyprian
's
care not only extended over Carthage, but to Numidia and Mauritania.
5
St.
Cyprian
,
A.D. 250, does not include Hebrews among St. Paul's Epistles.
1
To go outside of all standards of decency like a common
strumpet
.
2
A vile wretch, a common
strumpet
,
or a thief, may possess them.
3
I suppose Mrs. Hand still lives with you in Chicago-thecheap
strumpet
!
4
No matter how modestly you dress, you're still a
strumpet
,
Selene.
5
Yes, with an Italian who looks more like a
strumpet
than a duchess.
1
The Trixie
trollop
had a fixation about a turkey or a ham.
2
He was weak, controlled by that ingenious
trollop
Jezzibella, by a non-possessed.
3
Why need I have told them that Archie's wife was a
trollop
.
4
Do you think your hat is on straight, you untidy little
trollop
?
5
He was going to use my money to support himself and his
trollop
.
1
He cannot plead his estimation with you; he hath been a
bawd
.
2
But the drysian said the
bawd
had been to her with various maladies.
3
Or until my fine
bawd
can scrape together a few ducats.
4
Upon this we parted, and the same
bawd
presently provided her another keeper.
5
Elias was friends with every
bawd
,
whore, and merrymaker in town.
1
They chafed and bantered and stormed every café and
cocotte
impartially, recklessly.
2
Now Brochet was the surname of a certain fascinating
cocotte
.
3
She probably thinks these delays and subterfuges are necessary to differentiate her from a
cocotte
.
4
She lived for most part like a mere
cocotte
.
5
She will end"-hemade the gesture of counting money into his hand-"shewill end as a
cocotte
.
"
1
Oh, I'm a
sporting
lady
,
dear master.
1
I expect the church will be full of jaded
ladies
of
pleasure
,
all waiting to forbid the banns.'
2
This play was greatly condemned by the critics; some incidents in it are borrowed from Shirley's
Lady
of
Pleasure
.
3
The tables win enormously, and so do the
ladies
of
pleasure
;
but the winnings of these go back again to the tables.
4
As Evelyn, the diarist, puts it, this great man's fall was the work of "the buffoones and
ladys
of
pleasure
.
"
5
This sham petition occasioned a pretended answer, entitled, The Gracious Answer of the Most Illustrious
Lady
of
Pleasure
,
the Countess of Castlem .
1
You think I'm as bad as any
woman
of
the
street
.
2
Jimmie got drunk and wasted a part of his money on a
woman
of
the
street
.
3
As between the three-thenoblewoman, the working woman and the
woman
of
the
street
-
the
medical
officials in charge made no distinction whatsoever.
4
Even the Saviour had been kind to the
woman
of
the
streets
.
5
Let the streets do their will with the
woman
of
the
streets
.
1
Your mom's a pretty
fancy
woman
.
2
Fellows don't generally
fancy
women
that age; they like slips of girls.
3
As these
fancy
women
knew all too well, one didn't achieve, one connived.
4
Miss Fairfax
fancies
women
can have no ambition on their own account, Cecil.
5
The johns like to think they're getting treated fancy by the
fancy
women
.
1
Remember me, I'm the
working
girl
,
and I happen to be exhausted.
2
If she was a
working
girl
,
she definitely wasn't from my agency.
3
If I'd been an honest
working
girl
he'd never have noticed me.
4
If I don't understand men, Mr. Harwood, no poor
working
girl
does.
5
Only a
working
girl
,
plain in appearance and in dress, diffident and self-effacing.
Usage of
whore
in English
1
Of course O'Melaghlin would come here, dragging the de Valery
whore
behind.
2
What I said was this: I merely wished to question the
whore
!
3
The artist was at least as present in her as the
whore
.
4
Funny too-youknow how they say a
whore
makes a good wife?
5
Neil was a little
whore
;
had been for quite a few years.
6
That sea is colder than a maiden and crueler than a
whore
.
7
I don't have time to play
meet
-
the
-
drug
-
whore
in the HTD today... .
8
I made Leahy look like a political
whore
down by the river.
9
Could it not wait until the business with the
whore
was done?
10
He sits taut, ready to vent his fury on yet more
whore
-
bluff
.
11
You've never seen a
whore
look so scrubbed and clean and pristine.
12
The box with the red
whore
's
hat in it came to mind.
13
He remembered the other victims-theChinese
whore
,
the salesgirl and Dolores Clark.
14
Would you believe that Sonchai here has never been with a
whore
?
15
No longer must a woman be a
whore
or be an angel.
16
Why did Guan, a national model worker, call another woman a
whore
?
Other examples for "whore"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
whore
Noun
Singular
Verb
Indicative · Present
Frequent collocations
little whore
old whore
dead whore
call a whore
black whore
More collocations
Translations for
whore
Portuguese
devassa
mulher de vida fácil
menina
puta
cortesã
rameira
peripatética
prostituta
messalina
quenga
mulher pública
mulher da vida
meretriz
rapariga
vadia
Catalan
prostituta
meretriu
dona de la vida
dona pública
Whore
through the time
Whore
across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common