whore:
1. A prostitute . See prostitute for synonyms.ETYMOLOGY: From the 11 th century Anglo-Saxon word hore, an adulterer . Whorehouse, the place of business , appeared about three hundred years later. Rosalie Maggio. Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (1991): ' "Whore" used to be a nonjudgmental term describing a lover of either sex .'
QUOTES:
(1) Matthew (Don Johnson) in Zachariah (1970): ' A whore is only good for one night .'
(2) Paul (John Malkovich), the clown, to Jack (John Cusack), the student, in Shadows and Fog (1992): ' I never do-it with a whore. You start out with a burning desire and you end up in the morning with a burning sensation, if you know what I mean .'
(3) Dorothy Parker: ' You can lead a horticulture, but you cant make her think .'
(4) Carbo (Jan-Michael Vincent) and Luke Matthews (James Coburn) in Bite the Bullet (1975):
-- Carbo: ' When a woman does it for money ...'
-- Luke: ' The man always gets the best of the bargain. Before you take her to bed , she's a thing of beauty ; in bed , an angel of mercy; and afterwards, she's a ...'
-- Carbo: ' A whore ...'
-- Luke: '... a pillow of peace .'
2. A friendly insult or greeting between male (or gay) friends.' What's up , whore? ' See: whore-you?
3. To live a sexually promiscuous life . ' You whore around all night, sleep all day! '
4. An insult for a person who has compromised his/her principles for money .
5. An unscrupulous person.
See Also: 44, 6-2-4, 6-to-4, ammunition whore, bag bride, bag-piper, ballum rancum, bastard, Betty Bouffant, big hair, blowen, boat and oar, bolt the door, broken oar, bunter, burn, burner, burning, buss-beggar, buttock and file, camp follower, cat house, christening, common shore, covey, dolly-mopper, Doug McClure, drabbing, early door, essayeur, eye that weeps most when best pleased, fish-monger, flash man, forty-four, garden tool mama, gentleman of the road, hackney, hedge-creeper, ho, hoe, hooer, hoor, illegitimate child, Jane Shore, leaping over the sword, long eye, madonna-whore syndrome, main bitch, meat-monger, merry arse Christian, mort, Mr. Horner, mutton-monger, muttoner, nether end, nether eye, piss broken glass, piss pins and needles, piss razor blades, prostitute-versus-madonna syndrome, punk, Rory O'More, rose among thorns, Rosy O'More, scankie, sightseer, six-to-four, skanky, sloop of war, socket money, stank, star of the line, star-gazer, stargazer, stink, stroll, tongue, two-by-four, venereal disease, Westminster wedding, whore, whore you?, whore-hopper, whorehound, whoreson, whoretel, whoring, whorish
Quotes Containing whore:
Donald (Jackie Vernon) in Microwave Massacre (1983): 'I'm so hungry I could eat a whore .'
Matthew (Don Johnson) in Zachariah (1970): 'A whore is only good for one night.'
Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977): ''What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore .''
Philo Grant (Michael Wincott) in Strange Days (1995): 'The only time a whore should open her mouth is when she is giving head .'
According to James T. Henke in Courtesans and Cuckolds. A Glossary of Renaissance Dramatic Bawdy (1979): 'A seminal emission in the vagina of a whore literally would be a "sin".'
Paul (John Malkovich) in Shadows and Fog (1992): ''I never do-it with a whore . You start out with a burning desire and you end up in the morning with a burning sensation, if you know what I mean.''
'Goddarnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty-dollar whore .' Taggart (Slim Pickens) to the articulate Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) in Blazing Saddles (1974)
Carbo (Jan-Michael Vincent) and Luke Matthews (James Coburn) in Bite the Bullet (1975): - Carbo: 'When a woman does it for money ...' - Luke: 'The man always gets the best of the bargain. Before you take her to bed , she's a thing of beauty ; in bed , an angel of mercy; and afterwards, she's a...' - Carbo: 'A whore ...' - Luke: '...a pillow of peace.'
Paul (John Malkovich), the clown, to Jack (John Cusack), the student, in Shadows and Fog (1992): 'I never do-it with a whore . You start out with a burning desire and you end up in the morning with a burning sensation, if you know what I mean.'
Sword-swallower Irmy (Mia Farrow), who just admitted having-sex with a student for $700, and (Max) Kleinman (Woody Allen) in Shadows and Fog (1992): - Irmy: 'I slept with one person for money . Does that makes me a whore?' - Kleinmann: 'No, only by the dictionary definition.'
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