whore
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You might be confusing the word whore with who're. These words are commonly misused.
Pronunciation
[change]- (UK) enPR: hô, IPA (key): /hɔː/
- (US) enPR: hôr, IPA (key): /hɔr/
- Homophone: hoar
- Homophone: hoe (non-rhotic with dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern accents))
Audio (CA) (file) - Hyphenation: whore
Noun
[change]- (countable) (vulgar) A whore is a person (usually a woman) who has sex for money.
- Synonym: prostitute
- I had sex with a whore yesterday.
- (countable) (vulgar) A whore is someone (usually a woman) who has sex with a lot of people.
- Synonym: slut
- That woman is such a whore.
- (countable) (vulgar) A whore is someone who goes against what they believe in for their own gain.
- You are such a whore for money.
Verb
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- (transitive) (vulgar) if you whore yourself, you have had sex for money; you have prostituted yourself.
- (transitive) (vulgar) if you whore something, you are promoting it without shame.