whorish

English

Alternative forms

• whoreish

Etymology

whore +‎ -ish

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔɹɪʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹɪʃ

Adjective

whorish (comparative more whorish, superlative most whorish)

1. (vulgar) Resembling or befitting a whore.

   Synonyms: hookerish, meretricious, sluttery, slutlike, sluttish, slutty, tartish, tarty, trampy, whorey, whorelike

   Some pop singers try to compensate for lack of talent with whorish outfits and gyrations.

   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins / Are pleased to breed out your inheritors:

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 6:9:

     […] I am broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me, and with their eyes which goe a whoring after their idoles: […] .

   • 1989, John Irving, chapter 7, in A Prayer for Owen Meany‎^[1], New York: William Morrow, page 327:

     […] Lish’s mother, the divorcee, was a beauty and a whorish flirt.

   • 2005 March 13, Denny Lee, quoting Vince, “Looking for Mr. Right Now”, in New York Times‎^[2], retrieved 19 November 2016:

     Vince, a natty 23-year-old financial analyst from Hoboken, made no bones about his agenda. "I love it here, it's so whorish," he said.

Derived terms

• whorishly
• whorishness

Translations

resembling a whore

• Esperanto: putineca
• Faroese: horutur
• Finnish: huorahtava (fi)
• French: putassier (fr)
• Italian: puttanesco
• Norwegian: horete
• Swedish: horaktig