Reverse Dictionary: WHORE

(also see PROSTITUTE)

ADJECTIVES
► BROTHELLOUS whorish → 1583 obs.
► BUTTOCKING promiscuous, whorish → L17 sl.
► GAME whorish, engaged in prostitution → 1821 sl.
► RIGGISH wanton, licentious, whorish → 1570 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► STUPROUS unchaste, sexually compliant; given to adultery or whoredom, adulterous, whorish → 1603 obs.

NOUNS
► CHIPPY-CHASING whoring or philandering → 1915 Amer. sl.
► FAMILY OF LOVE prostitutes in general; whores; lewd women → M16
► GALLIVANT a nest of whores → E19 sl.
► MECHATION adultery; fornication; whoredom → 1656 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BADGER a smelly prostitute; a low whore → 19C Brit. sl.
► BELLY-PIECE a concubine, a mistress, a prostitute, a whore → 1632 obs.
► BLISTER an immoral woman; a whore → 1905 Amer. dial.
► BROKEN OAR a whore; a prostitute → 20C Brit. rhyming sl.
► BURICK a whore → Bk1892 Aust. sl.
► COCKATRICE a prostitute, a whore; often used as a term of reproach or abuse for a woman → 1568 arch.
► EARLY DOOR a prostitute; a whore → 19C Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘whore’
► GAME a whore, a lewd woman → 1725 UK sl. obs.
 GARDEN TOOL a whore; a ‘ho’ → 2006 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GUTTER SLUT a poor prostitute; a common whore → 20C Amer. sl., derogatory
► GUTTERSNIPE a low prostitute; a common whore → 19C colloq.
► HAWKIE a whore → 1813 Sc. sl.
► HECK a whore → Bk1902 Sc.
► LADY OF PLEASURE a courtesan, a whore; a prostitute → 1637
► LASS OF RECREATION a whore → 1773 Sc.
► LIGHT-FRIGATE a woman of loose morals; a wanton; a whore → c1690 Brit. sl.
 MAIDEN-WIFE-WIDOW a whore → 1670 colloq.
► MAN-LEECH a whore → 1687 obs.
► MISWOMAN a bad, wicked woman; a whore or lewd woman; a strumpet → 1528 obs.
► MOLL a prostitute; a whore → 1604
► NAG a whore → 1598 sl.
► NANNY a prostitute; a whore → 18C Brit.
► PARTRIDGE a whore, a prostitute; a harlot or a tart → c1700 sl. 
 PINTLE- MAID a mistress; a kept whore → 19C colloq., obs.
► PINTLE-BIT a mistress; a kept whore → 19C colloq., obs.
 PIPER’S WIFE a whore → L18 colloq.
► PUTAIN a woman of ill fame; a whore, a prostitute, a strumpet → a1300 obs.
► PUTANIE a prostitute, a whore; a strumpet, a slut → 1566 obs.
► RAMP ► ROMP a whore or sexually loose woman → M16
► RORY O’MORE a whore → B1900 rhyming sl.
► SUBURB-DRAB a whore → 1678 sl.
► SUBURB SINNER a loose woman, a prostitute; a whore → 1598
► SUBURB-WENCH a whore → Bk1904 sl.
► SUCCUBUS a strumpet, a whore; a term of abuse for low woman → 1622
► TOWN MISS a prostitute; ‘a whore of quality’ → M17 sl.
► TRADING DAME a whore, a prostitute → 1678 sl. 
► WENCH OF THE SUBURBS a whore → 1614 sl.
► W.H. a whore → 1887 euphemism
► WHOREMONGER a notorious user of whores → E16
► WRONG ‘UN a whore; a prostitute → c1890 sl
► YAUD a strumpet; a whore; an unchaste or loose woman → a1400 obs.

PHRASES
► BEST CARPENTERS MAKE THE FEWEST CHIPS, THE commenting that whores seldom have children → 1568 arch.
► WHY BUY A BOOK WHEN YOU CAN GO TO A LIBRARY? ‘Why go to the expense of a wife so long as I can visit a whore?’ → 20C sl.

VERBS
► BE NAUGHTY to play the whore → Bk1902 sl.
► BEWHORE to prostitute; to make a whore of; to call whore → a1616 obs.
► CHIPPY to be sexually promiscuous or unfaithful; also, to whore → 1930 Amer. sl.
► DO THE NAUGHTY to play the whore → Bk1902 sl.
► GO NAUGHTY to play the whore → Bk1902 sl.
► GO THE MANOR OF PICKT-HATCH to go whoring, to whore → L16 sl.
► GO TO PAUL’S FOR A WIFE to go whoring → L16 colloq.
 GO TO PICKT-HATCH GRANGE to go whoring, to whore → 1620 sl.
 GO TO WESTMINSTER FOR A WIFE to go whoring → L16 colloq.
► MERETRICATE to play the whore; to behave lasciviously → 1623 obs.
► STRUMPET to play the whore; to practice prostitution → L16 sl.