whore
Because it is a word with a single syllable, whore is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofwhore
- Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
Synonyms: "sex worker"
- A person who does, or offers to do, a demeaning or dishonourable activity for money or personal gain; someone who acts in a dishonourable way for personal advantage.
Synonyms: sellout
- A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut.
- A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.
- A person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.
- A contemptible person.
- To prostitute oneself.
- To engage the services of a prostitute.
- To pimp; to pander.
- To promote shamelessly.
Example: "Did you see him on that chat show, whoring his new book?"
- To pursue false gods.
- To pursue false goals.
- To overuse something.
Example: "BTW, that guy whuz still an asshole - camping the BFG and whoring the quad - I usually leave BFG maps but stuck around on that one and suicided quite a bit (3 times I got to about -10 frags, then came back to 0...)."
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