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Definition: Whore |
WhoreNoun1. A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money. Verb1. Corrupt by lewd intercourse. 2. Have unlawful sex with a whore. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "whore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Bielorussian (bliadz', pizda ), Catalan (puta), Czech (kurva ), Dutch (hoer, rothoer, temeier), Esperanto (c^iesulino, publikulino, putino), French (pouffiasse , putain, pute), German (Gertrud, Hure, Nutte, die), Greek (kargiola), Hindi (randi), Hungarian (kurva), Italian (bagascia, baldracca, battona, buona donna , mignotta, puttana, zoccola), Norwegian (hore), Occitan (puta, putan), Polish (kurwa), Quebecois (chienne), Slovak (kurva), Spanish (puta), Thai (gengli), Turkish (fahis,e), Yapese (muchgubil), Yiddish (kurva, kurve ). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically oral sex or sexual intercourse, less often anal sex) for money or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. A person selling sexual favors is a prostitute, a type of sex worker.
Overview
A Gay Party in a Brothel
by Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)
Most prostitutes are women offering their services to men (known as johns (US) or punters (UK)), but male prostitutes offering their services to male customers also exist and are called hustlers or rent boys. Male prostitutes offering services to female customers are comparatively rare and are known as gigolos.
Prostitutes are stigmatized in most societies and religions; their customers are typically stigmatized to a lesser degree.
The term prostitution is sometimes used in the more general meaning of having sex in order to achieve a certain goal different from procreation or pleasure. This includes forms of religious prostitution, in which sex is practiced in compliance with religious precepts. Prostitution in this broader sense is also commonly used in espionage.
Another generalization is using the term or an equivalent for earning well in an unscrupulous degrading manner, e.g. quote whore.
The term pimp is sometimes used figuratively, as in poverty pimp.
Types of Prostitution
Prostitution today occurs in various quite different settings.
In many wealthy countries, illegal immigrants work in prostitution, often against their will. The term used for forcing people into prostitution is "sexual slavery".
- In street prostitution, the prostitute solicits customers while waiting at street corners or walking alongside a street.
- Prostitution occurs in some massage parlors and, in Asian countries, in some barber shops, where sexual services may be offered for an additional tip.
- Brothels are establishments specifically dedicated to prostitution, often confined to special red-light districts in big cities. Other names for brothels include Bordello, Cathouse etc.
- In escort prostitution, the customer calls an agency and the act takes place at the customer's place of residence or, more commonly, at his hotel room.
- Prostitution also takes place in the prostitute's apartment, and in many countries this is the only legal form of prostitution, as will be described below. A hybrid between brothel and apartment prostitution exists in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands: female prostitutes rent tiny one-room apartments in red-light districts and solicit customers from behind windows.
- In Japan, it is not uncommon for middle-class schoolgirls to prostitute themselves, often via "phone clubs" that allow them to anonymously establish contact first by phone. These girls are called Kogal.
In addition to the first world, this also takes place in countries of South Asia such as India and Thailand, where young girls are sometimes sold to brothel owners. In modern day Thailand this is becoming much rarer.
While in both of these societies visiting prostitutes is a common and almost normal behavior, Thailand is also a destination of sex tourists, travellers from rich countries in search of cheap sexual services. Other popular sex tourism destinations are Brazil, the Caribbean, and former eastern bloc countries.
Female prostitutes, especially street prostitutes, are commonly associated with a pimp, a man who lives off the proceeds of several prostitutes and may offer some protection in return. The relationship between pimp and prostitute is often abusive.
Female managers of brothels or escort services are known as madams.
There are other commercial sexual activities that are generally not classified as prostitution. These include acting and modeling for pornographic materials, even if this involves engaging in sexual intercourse; exotic dancing, which is naked, sexually provocative acting (sometimes involving masturbation) without physical contact with the customer; lap dancing, where the dancer may come into contact with the customer in sexually provocative but strictly limited ways; and the services of professional dominants.
Street prostitution
An example of street prostitution.In street prostitution, the prostitute solicits customers while waiting at street corners or walking alongside a street, usually dressed in skimpy, suggestive clothing. Often the prostitute appears to mind his or her own business and waits for the customer to initiate contact. The act is performed in the customer's car or in a nearby rented room. This is the lowest paid and most dangerous form of prostitution; street prostitutes are often drug addicts and are commonly subjected to violence by both their pimps and customers.
Street prostitutes may or may not have a pimp.
Pimps often target vulnerable women and young girls who have run away from home, initially offering themselves as lovers or father-figures. After introducing their victims to prostitution, they often use beatings and drug addiction to maintain their victim's dependency. Pimps are also commonly low-echelon drug dealers.
Legal Situation
The unadorned act of exchanging money for sex among adults is legal in most countries; the United States (except for seven counties in Nevada), some Muslim and various Communist countries being notable exceptions. At one end of the spectrum, prostitution carries the death penalty in some Muslim countries; at the other end, prostitutes are tax paying and unionized professionals in the Netherlands and brothels are legal and advertising businesses there (however, the age of consent for prostitutes is 18, while in general it is 16). The legal situation in Germany is almost as liberal as in the Netherlands. In most countries, however, it is almost impossible to engage in most forms of prostitution legally because several surrounding activities, such as advertising, solicitation, pimping, or owning, operating or working in a brothel are illegal.
Rules vary which roles in prostitution are illegal: being a prostitute, being a client and/or being a pimp. Sweden outlaws the buying but not the selling of sex.
Law enforcement is typically concentrated against establishments engaged in sexual slavery or owned by organized crime, and against forms of prostitution that generate citizen complaints. In most countries where prostitution is illegal, at least some forms of it are tolerated. It has often been alleged that this situation allows the police to extort money or services from prostitutes in exchange for "looking the other way".
In some jurisdictions, such as Nevada (see: prostitution in Nevada), Switzerland and several Australian states, prostitution is legal but heavily regulated.
Such approaches are taken with the recognition that prostitution is impossible to eliminate in an open society, and thus these societies have chosen to regulate it in ways that reduce the more undesirable aspects of the practice. Goals of such regulations include controlling sexually transmitted disease, reducing sexual slavery, controlling where brothels may operate, as well as other reasons that vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
Daily Planet is a brothel in Melbourne, Australia of which since 2003 shares are listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Several western countries have recently enacted laws punishing citizens who, as sex-tourists, engage in sex with minors in other countries. These laws are rarely enforced.
Pimping is a sex crime in many jurisdictions. In 1949, the United Nations adopted a convention stating that prostitution is incompatible with human dignity, requiring all signing parties to punish pimps and brothel owners and operators, and to abolish all special treatment or registration of prostitutes. The convention was ratified by 89 countries with the notable exceptions of Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.
Medical situation
Since prostitutes tend to have large numbers of sexual partners, prostitution has often been associated with the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, like AIDS.
There are a number of typical responses to this problem:
Some think that the first two measures can be counter-productive. Banning prostitution tends to drive it underground, making treatment and monitoring more difficult. Registering prostitutes makes the state complicit in prostitution, effectively making the state into a pimp, and still does not address the behavior of unregistered prostitutes.
- to try to ban prostitution completely
- to introduce a system of registration for prostitutes that mandates health checks and other public health measures
- to try to reach out informally to prostitutes and their clients to encourage the use of barrier contraception and greater interaction with health care
Both of the last two measures can be viewed as harm reduction policies.
Politics
Many countries have sex worker advocacy groups which lobby against criminalization and discrimination of prostitutes. These groups generally oppose Nevada-style regulation and oversight, stating that prostitution should be treated like other professions.
Other groups, often with religious backgrounds, focus on offering women a way out of the world of prostitution while not taking a position on the legal question.
The feminist position towards prostitution is divided: while some feminists theorize prostitution as an act of sexual self-determination, decry discrimination and demand destigmatization and decriminalization, others, exemplified by the American radical feminist and ex-prostitute Andrea Dworkin, consider it to be sexual abuse or even rape. The former group pushed a law reform in Germany, resulting in January 2002 in the recognition of prostitution as a regular profession, making it possible for prostitutes to join the social security and health care system and to form trade unions. The latter faction of feminists was able to implement the remarkable law mentioned above, in Sweden in 1999, when buying sexual favors was outlawed there but selling them was not.
History
Prostitution is often called "the oldest profession in the world".
One of the first forms is sacred prostitution, supposedly practiced among Sumerians. In ancient sources (Herodotus, Thucydides) there are many traces of sacred prostitution, starting perhaps with Babylon, where each woman had to reach, once a year, the sanctuary of Militta (Aphrodites or Nana/Anahita), and there have sex with a foreigner, as a sign of hospitality, for a symbolic price.
A similar type of prostitution was practiced in Cyprus (Paphus) and in Corinth, where the temple counted more than a thousand prostitutes (hierodules), according to Strabo. It was widely in use in Sardinia and in some of the Phoenician cultures, usually in honour of the goddess Astarte (or Ishtar). Presumedly by the Phoenicians, this practice was developed in other ports of the Mediterranean Sea, like in Erice (Sicily), in Locri Epizephiri, Croton, Rossano Vaglio, Sicca Veneria and other towns. Other hypothesis regard Asia Minor, Lydia, Syria and Etruscans.
It was common in Israel too, but some prophets, like Hosea and Ezekiel strongly fought it; it is assumed that it was part of the cults of Canaan, where a significant proportion of prostitutes were male.
In ancient Rome, the priestesses of goddess Vesta had the two duties of always maintaining lit the goddess' fire, and to initiate young boys to sex at the moment of tonsura. The famous Rea Silvia, mother of Romulus and Remus, was one of these. The use of maintaining an always lit fire has been recorded in many coastal temples, and has been ideally connected with the preference (or exclusive licence) granted to sailors to use these services. It has been supposed that these fires should indicate the route to sailors, exactly like modern lighthouses.
In ancient Greek and Roman societies, common prostitutes were independent and sometimes influential women who were required to wear distinctive dresses and had to pay taxes. Some similarities have been found between the greek Hetaera and the japanese Geisha, complex figures that are perhaps in an intermediate position between prostitution and courtisanerie.
In Greece, Solon instituted the first of Athens' brothels (oik`iskoi) in the 6th century BC, and with the earnings of this business he built a temple dedicated to Aprodites Pandemo (or Qedesh), patron goddess of this commerce. The greek word for prostitute is porne, derived from the verb pernemi (to sell), with the evident modern evolution. The procuring was however severely forbidden.
Each specialised category had its proper name, so there were the chamaitypa`i, working outdoor (lie-down), the perepatetikes who met their customers while walking (and then worked in their houses), the gephyrides, who worked near the bridges. In the 5th century, Ateneo informs us that the price was of 1 obole, a sixth of a dracma and the equivalent of an ordinary worker's day salary. The rare pictures describe that sex was performed on beds with covers and pillows, while triclinia usually didn't have these accessories.
In the Bible there are many stories about common prostitution, with also a case (Tamar) of a false prostitute that commits incest with her father-in-law (Judah). In Jericho, a prostitute named Rahab assisted the Israelite spies. In Jewish legend, she was rewarded for this by later marrying Joshua.
Throughout the Middle Ages, prostitution flourished in Europe and brothels were often operated by municipalities. The outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases in the 16th century and the Reformation led to stricter controls.
In some periods prostitutes had to distinguish themselves by particular signs, sometimes wearing very short hair or no hair at all. Ancient codes regulated in this case the crime of a prostitute that dissimulated her profession. In some cultures, prostitutes were the sole women allowed to sing in public.
In the 18th century, presumedly in Venice, prostitutes started using condoms, made with catgut or cow bowel.
In the United States, prostitution was made illegal in almost all states between 1910 and 1915. In 1917 the legally defined prostitution district Storyville in New Orleans was closed down by the Federal government over local objections.
Communist countries have often claimed that prostitution does not exist within their borders.
In the 1970s some religious groups were discovered practicing religious prostitution as an instrument to make new adepts.
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Links and References
- The UN Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949)
- http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/33.htm Full text
- http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/treaty11a.htm Status of ratifications, reservations and declarations:
- Prostitution Research and Education: Focuses on the harm done to the prostitutes, and ways to reduce it.
- Prostitute's Education Network: American prostitutes' rights organization, aims for decriminalization. Links to sex worker's rights organizations in other countries.
- Piet den Blanken: The Prostitution Pictures, photographs of streetwalkers and brothels around the world.
- 50 Tips for Prostitutes : Helpful hints to The Working Person, by Jahnet de Light, (British)
- World Sex Guide Report Archives
- U.S. DOJ guide to street prostitution
- FBI press release: Twelve pimps sentenced for prostituting children
- John Preston: HUSTLING, A Gentelmen's Guide to the Fine Art of Homosexual Prostitution, Masqueade Books, New Jork, 1994
- Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher: O negócio do michê, prostituição viril am Sao Paulo, 1.a edição 1987, editora brasiliense
- Ine Vanwesenbeeck (2001), "Another decade of social scientific work on sex work: A review of research 1990-2000," Annual Review of Sex Research, 12, p. 242
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prostitution."
Synonyms: WhoreSynonyms: bawd (n), cocotte (n), cyprian (n), fancy woman (n), harlot (n), lady of pleasure (n), prostitute (n), sporting lady (n), tart (n), trollop (n), woman of the street (n), working girl (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Libertine | Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Whore |
| English words defined with "whore": Bewhore ♦ Whored, Whoring, Whorish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "whore": Blue Bottle, BRISTOL MAN, BUNTER, BUTTOCK, BUTTOCK AND FILE, BUTTOCK AND TWANG ♦ CRACK ♦ DEMURE, DOWN BUTTOCK AND SHAM FILE, DRAB ♦ Itching of the Nose ♦ JACK WHORE ♦ MADAM RAN, MERRY A-SE CHRISTIAN, MOLL ♦ puta ♦ WESTMINSTER WEDDING, WHORE PIPE. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I was attacked by a coked up whore and a crazy dentist (Twelve Monkeys; writing credit: David Webb Peoples) I'd rather be his whore than your wife (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron) Don't you walk away from me, you chalk-faced whore! (Chained Heat; writing credit: Aaron Butler; Paul Nicholas) Goddammit, Mr. Lamarr, sir, you use your tongue purdier than a twenny dollar whore! (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks) Save your soul, whore! (Crimes of Passion; writing credit: Barry Sandler) | |
Lyrics | And they call her a whore (What It's Like; performing artist: Everlast) I'm not your personal whore, that's not what I'm here for (U.N.I.T.Y.; performing artist: Queen Latifah) Maybe I was your whore (Been It; performing artist: The Cardigans; writing credit: Persson, Svensson) You will always be my whore (Ava Adore; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins) It's where I'm from that lets them think I'm a whore (Sleepwalker; performing artist: The Wallflowers) | |
Movie/TV Titles | White Trash Whore 26 (2002) In the Days of Whore (2000) Tara Patrick aka Filthy Whore (2000) Junket Whore (1998) Fame Whore (1997) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Webster | Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop. |
Jonathan Swift | As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. |
Samuel Johnson | They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. |
| Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore. | |
Tori Amos | When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Whore" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.72% of the time. "Whore" is used about 257 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.72% | 246 | 19,009 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.95% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.17% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.17% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 257 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "whore": scarlet whore ♦ whore after smth. ♦ whore house ♦ whore master ♦ whore monger. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "whore": whore-house, whore-houses. | |
Ending with "whore": half-whore, madonna-whore. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
whore | 3,988 | preggo whore | 92 |
video whore | 404 | russian whore | 88 |
milf whore | 391 | whore cam | 79 |
old whore | 251 | blonde whore | 76 |
black whore | 223 | dirty whore | 70 |
teen whore | 184 | amateur whore | 70 |
whore house | 179 | naked whore | 70 |
asian whore | 173 | cock sucking whore | 68 |
mature whore | 171 | pregnant whore | 64 |
sex whore | 162 | free whore | 64 |
ebony whore | 128 | white whore | 63 |
whore wife | 122 | street whore | 60 |
anal whore | 121 | beautiful whore | 55 |
young whore | 115 | latin whore | 54 |
slutty whore | 115 | little whore | 52 |
fat whore | 113 | teenage whore | 49 |
facial whore | 103 | nasty whore | 49 |
mexican whore | 100 | indian whore | 48 |
thai whore | 92 | latina whore | 46 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "whore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | hoer (hooker). (various references) | |
Albanian | zuskë, putanë, prosti (bitch, hooker), lavire (drab, prostitute, strumpet, trull), kurvëroj (prostitute), kurvë (bitch, harlot, hooker), harpi (bitch, harpy, hooker). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاجرة (adulteress, harlot, prostitute), مومس (baggage, bawd, bitch, cocotte, courtesan, courtezan, drab, harlot, moll, prostitute, punk, scrubber, slattern, strumpet, tart, trollop), متناكة (prostitute), لبوة, قحبة (harlot, prostitute), زنى (commit adultery, fornicate, prostitute, prostitution), عاهرة (bitch, harlot, hen, hooker, moll, prostitute, scrubber, strumpet), شرموطة (bitch, prostitute). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | развратявам, развратнича, курварствувам, курва, блудствувам, блудница (harlot, scarlet woman), проститутка (doxy, drab, fancy girl, fancy woman, harlot, hooker, night bird, night walker, prostitute, punk, scarlet woman, strumpet, tart, tootsy, tramp, trollop, trot, trull, unfortunate, wench). (various references) | |
Chinese | 婊子 (prostitute), "女 (Hooker, Prostitute, streetwalker). (various references) | |
Czech | kurva, dìvka (tramp). (various references) | |
Danish | skøge (hooker). (various references) | |
Dutch | prostituée (hooker, prostitute), lichtekooi (hooker, trollop), hoer (hooker). (various references) | |
Esperanto | putino (hooker), ĉiesulino (hooker, prostitute). (various references) | |
Faeroese | skøkja (hooker). (various references) | |
Farsi | فاحشه کردن , فاحشه بازی کردن , فاحشه (Drab, Harlot, Madem, Mademe, Nag, Prostitute, Pug, Quean, Ribald, Stallion, Townswoman, Tramp, Wench). (various references) | |
Finnish | portto (harlot, prostitute), huora (harlot, prostitute). (various references) | |
French | putain. (various references) | |
German | Hure (harlot, strumpet, wench). (various references) | |
Greek | πουτάνα (hooker, prostitute, tart, trollop). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מופקרת (prostitute, trollop), יצא ית (harlot, prostitute, street girl, streetwalker, strumpet, tramp), לז ות (commit adultery, fornicate, prostitute, prostitute oneself), פרוצ" (bitch, floozy, harlot, prostitute), זו " (drab, harlot, prostitute). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szajha (bad woman, bitch, drab, harlot, jade, moll, polecat, punk, strumpet, trollop, wench). (various references) | |
Icelandic | skækja (hooker), hóra (hooker). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pelacur (courtesan, drab, harlot, prostitute), cabo (prostitute). (various references) | |
Irish | fraochÚn (hooker). (various references) | |
Italian | prostituta (bawd, courtesan, floozy, harlot, prostitute, quean, streetwalker, strumpet, wench). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 街娼 (prostitute, streetwalker), ペン先 (force out, fork, horse race, horsepower, horseradish, hose, HP, pen nibs, PS), パンジー色 (briefs, brochure, deep violet, most people, paint, pampas, pamphlet, panda, pan-focus, pantalon, pantheon, panties, pantograph, pantomime, pantothenic, pantry, pantskirt, panty, panty girdle, panty hose, panty skirt, panty stocking, pantyhose, PCS, pumping, pumpkin, pumps, punch, punch card, punch permanent, punch-card system, punt kick, showing underwear, underpants), させ子 (candid, clean, feeling refreshed, feeling relieved, frank, fresh, have no inkling of, neat, now, quickly, relief, some time ago, suddenly, then, trimmed, well). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がいしょう (external wound, foreign businessman, Foreign Minister, out-of-store sales, prostitute, streetwalker), ホーア , パンスケ , させ". (various references) | |
Korean | 매춘부 (Hooker, Prostitute, streetwalker). (various references) | |
Manx | strumpag (prostitute, street-walker), streebagh (courtesan, fancy woman, prostitute), oainjyr (mistress, prostitute), byddage (brazen woman, minx, strumpet), ben oainjyragh (prostitute), ben chadjin (doxy, nymphomaniac). (various references) | |
Papiamen | puta (hooker), muhé di bida (hooker), mohen di bida (hooker), mohé di bida (hooker, prostitute). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orewhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prostituta (bitch, call girl, courtesan, courtezan, drab, draggle-tail, harlot, harridan, hooker, moll, mort, prostitute, punk, streetwalker, strumpet, traipse, trull, unfortunate, walker, wench). (various references) | |
Romanian | târfã (baggage, doxy, drab, harlot, Moll, strumpet, tart, wench), se destrãbãla, prostituatã (call girl, chippy, doxy, drab, harlot, Moll, prostitute, strumpet, unfortunate), lele, damã (broad, Dame, demimondaine, demi-rep, face card, lady, queen, tart), curvã (bitch, hooker). (various references) | |
Russian | проститутка (call-girl, harlot, hooker, light-o'-love, prossie, prossy, prostitute, scarlet, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, tramp, trollop, trull, white slave). (various references) | |
Scottish | siùrsach (a whore). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sokačara (streetwalker), kurvati se (womanize), kurva (bawd, chippy, hooker, pickup, strumpet). (various references) | |
Spanish | puta (dike, dyke, hooker, hustler, tart, tramp), prostituta (call girl, harlot, hooker, Moll, Molly, night walker, prostitute, quail, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet). (various references) | |
Sranan | yayo-uma (hooker, prostitute), uru (hooker), motyo (hooker). (various references) | |
Swedish | sköka (harlot, hooker), hora (hooker, strumpet). (various references) | |
Turkish | orospu (bitch, chippy, drab, fancy woman, floozy, harlot, hooker, Moll, painted woman, pro, prostitute, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, trull). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розпусничати (philander, sleep around, wanton, womanize), шльондра (besom, jade, witch), займатися проституці"ю (prostitute), збезчестити (ruin), блудница, повія (baggage, bawd, call girl, cat, chippy, harlot, jilt, quean, streetwalker, strumpet, trollop, unfortunate, wagtail, witch). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | gái điếm ăn chi truỵ lạc, đĩ (harlot, molly, strumpet, trollop, trull). (various references) | |
Welsh | putain (harlot, prostitute). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fornicaria, fornicariae, fornicariam, fornicariis, meretrix meretricis, prostibuli, prostibulum, prostitutis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 27 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | PiqoV gar tetrhmenoV estin allotrioV oikoV kai frear stenon allotrion |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Fovea enim profunda est meretrix et puteus angustus aliena |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | A dep dich forsothe is a strumpet, and a streit pit an alien womman. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For a lewd woman is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | Kay ang usa ka bigaon maoy usa ka halalum nga kanal; Ug ang usa ka babaye nga dumuloong maoy usa ka masigpit nga gahong. |
| Croatian | Jer bludnica je jama duboka i tuðinka tijesan zdenac. |
| Danish | Thi en bundløs Grav er Skøgen, den fremmede Kvinde, en snæver Brønd; |
| Dutch | Want een hoer is een diepe gracht, en een vreemde vrouw is een enge put. |
| Finnish | Sillä portto on syvä kuoppa, ja vieras vaimo on ahdas kaivo. |
| French | Car la prostituée est une fosse profonde, Et l`étrangère un puits étroit. |
| German | Denn eine Hure ist eine tiefe Grube, und eine Ehebrecherin ist ein enger Brunnen. |
| Haitian Creole | Fanm jennès se tankou yon twou pèlen, fanm adiltè se tankou yon pi jis jis. |
| Hungarian | Mert mély verem a tisztátalan asszony, és szoros kút az idegen asszony. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Perempuan nakal yang melacur adalah perangkap yang berbahaya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | karena seorang perempuan sundal itu laksana parit yang dalam, dan seorang perempuan jalang seperti perigi yang sempit. |
| Italian | una fossa profonda è la prostituta, e un pozzo stretto la straniera. |
| Maori | No te mea he rua hohonu te wahine kairau; he poka kuiti te wahine ke. |
| Norwegian | For skjøgen er en dyp grav, og den fremmede kvinne en trang brønn; |
| Portuguese | Porque cova profunda é a prostituta; e poço estreito é a aventureira. |
| Rumanian | Cqci curva este o groapq adkncq, wi strqina o fkntknq strkmtq. |
| Russian | ПФПНХ ЮФП 'МХ"ОЙ"Б--ЗМХ'ПЛБС ТП БУФШ, Й ЮХЦБС ЦЕОБ--ФЕУОЩК ЛПМП"ЕЪШ; |
| Spanish | Porque fosa profunda es la prostituta; pozo angosto es la mujer extraña. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "whore": whored, whoredom, whoredoms, whorehouse, whorehouses, whoremaster, whoremasters, whoremonger, whoremongers, whores, whoreson, whoresons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "whore" (pronounced hô"r) |
| 3 | h ô" r | abhor, Hoar. |
| 2 | -ô" r | adore, antiwar, anymore, ashore, before, boar, bore, chore, cor, core, corps, decor, deplore, door, Dore, Dorr, drawer, explore, floor, for, fore, four, galore, Gore, guarantor, hardcore, heretofore, ignore, implore, inshore, lore, Mor, more, nor, oar, offshore, or, ore, outpour, outscore, pore, postwar, pour, prewar, rapport, restore, roar, score, Senor, shore, snore, soar, sore, spore, store, swore, tor, tore, Torr, underscore, war, wore, yore, your. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: hero, hoer, howe, wore. | |
-2 letters: her, hew, hoe, how, ore, owe, rho, roe, row, who, woe. | |
-3 letters: eh, er, he, ho, oe, oh, or, ow, re, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: howler, reshow, shower, whored, whores. | |
+2 letters: chowder, cowherb, cowherd, however, howlers, nowhere, preshow, reshown, reshows, showers, showery, showier, thrower, whereof, whereon, whereto, whoever, whooper, whopper, whorled, whortle, worthed. | |
+3 letters: checkrow, chowders, cowherbs, cowherds, foreshow, hallower, harrowed, harrower, headword, headwork, hedgerow, hollower, homebrew, homeward, homework, honewort, howitzer, meshwork, nowheres, outthrew, preshown, preshows, regrowth, reshowed, roughhew, sawhorse, shadower, showered, showerer, throwers, warhorse, whomever, whoopers, whoppers, whoredom, whoreson, whortles, whosever, wormhole, worthier, worthies. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Bible Trace 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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