whorish
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈhɔɹɪʃ/
Adjective
whorish (comparative more whorish, superlative most whorish)
- (vulgar) Resembling or befitting a whore.
- Some pop singers try to compensate for lack of talent with whorish outfits and gyrations.
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, Scene 1,
- You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins
- Are pleased to breed out your inheritors:
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Ezekiel 6:9,
- […] I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols […]
- 1989, John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, Chapter 7, p. 327,
- […] Lish’s mother, the divorcee, was a beauty and a whorish flirt.
Derived terms
Translations
resembling a whore
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