whorish en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈhɔɹɪʃ/ (US)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ Old English hōre Middle English hore English whore Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English whorish From whore + -ish.
Meanings
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(vulgar) Resembling or befitting a whore.
Some pop singers try to compensate for lack of talent with whorish outfits and gyrations.
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.
2005 March 13, Denny Lee, quoting Vince, “Looking for Mr. Right Now”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Nov 2016:You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins / Are pleased to breed out your inheritors:
c. 1602 (date written), 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]:[…] I am broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me, and with their eyes which goe a whoring after their idoles: […].
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 6:9:[…] Lish’s mother, the divorcee, was a beauty and a whorish flirt.
1989, John Irving, chapter 7, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 327:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most whorish | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| whoreish | alternative | lexicographic | |
| more whorish | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
tarty · slutlike · trampy · meretricious · slutty · hookerish · whorey · tartish · whorelike · sluttery · sluttish
Translations (10)
sv horaktig (resembling a whore) · fr putassier (resembling a whore) · ru шлю́ший (resembling a whore) · it puttanesco (resembling a whore) · eo putineca (resembling a whore) · fi huorahtava (resembling a whore) · nl hoerig (resembling a whore) · no horete (resembling a whore) · ru бля́дский (resembling a whore) · fo horutur (resembling a whore)