whorey

English

Etymology

From whore +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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• Homophone: hoary

Adjective

whorey (comparative whorier, superlative whoriest)

1. (vulgar, derogatory) Slutty, promiscuous.

   That is a very whorey, showy dress, Sara.

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 12, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:

     We got off the bus at Main Street, which was no different from where you get off a bus in Kansas City or Chicago or Boston—red brick, dirty, characters drifting by, trolleys grating in the hopeless dawn, the whorey smell of a big city.

   • 1974, The New York times book review, volume 2:

     The pity is that she didn't get more of the entertaining roles that were in her range; she hardly had the stability to play a mother or even a secretary and she was a shade too whorey for Daisy Miller or her descendants […]

   • 2011, Cris Mazza, Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, page 161:

     After I told her, I stayed, as the chorus girls and the all-girl band applied their heavy whorey make-up, and watched the boy who played the MC get his face created.

Translations

Of or resembling a slut

• Finnish: huoramainen, huorahtava (fi), lutkamainen, lutkahtava
• Spanish: aputada

Anagrams

• Howery