Dictionary

whorey en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From whore + -y.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, vulgar) Slutty, promiscuous.
   • After I told her, I stayed, as the chorus girls and the all-girl band applied their heavy whorey make-up, and watched the boy who played the MC get his face created. 2011, Cris Mazza, Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, page 161:
   • The pity is that she didn't get more of the entertaining roles that were in her range; she hardly had the stability to play a mother or even a secretary and she was a shade too whorey for Daisy Miller or her descendants[…] 1974, The New York times book review, volume 2:
   • We got off the bus at Main Street, which was no different from where you get off a bus in Kansas City or Chicago or Boston—red brick, dirty, characters drifting by, trolleys grating in the hopeless dawn, the whorey smell of a big city. 1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 12, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
   • That is a very whorey, showy dress, Sara.

Forms

Translations (6)

fi lutkahtava (Of or resembling a slut) · fi huorahtava (Of or resembling a slut) · pl dziwkarski (Of or resembling a slut) · fi huoramainen (Of or resembling a slut) · fi lutkamainen (Of or resembling a slut) · es aputada (Of or resembling a slut)