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.
Quotes Containing whore:
'She was so exquisite a Whore That in the Belly of her Mother Her Cunt was placed so right before Her father fucked them both together.' John Wilmot (1647-1680), 2nd Earl of Rochester wrote 'the dirtiest limerick ever written' for Nell Gwynn.
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