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whorish

adj
/ˈhɔɹɪʃ/US

Etymology

From whore + -ish.

  1. inherited from *kéh₂ros✻ — “loved”
  2. inherited from *hōrǭ✻
  3. inherited from hōre
  4. inherited from hore
  5. suffixed as whorish — “whore + ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or befitting a whore.

    • Some pop singers try to compensate for lack of talent with whorish outfits and gyrations.
    • You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins / Are pleased to breed out your inheritors:
    • […] I am broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me, and with their eyes which goe a whoring after their idoles: […].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for whorish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA