Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to whore
Participle: whored
Gerund: whoring
Indicative
Present
| I | whore |
| you | whore |
| he;she;it | whores |
| we | whore |
| you | whore |
| they | whore |
Perfect
| I | have whored |
| you | have whored |
| he;she;it | has whored |
| we | have whored |
| you | have whored |
| they | have whored |
Past
| I | whored |
| you | whored |
| he;she;it | whored |
| we | whored |
| you | whored |
| they | whored |
Pluperfect
| I | had whored |
| you | had whored |
| he;she;it | had whored |
| we | had whored |
| you | had whored |
| they | had whored |
Future
| I | will whore |
| you | will whore |
| he;she;it | will whore |
| we | will whore |
| you | will whore |
| they | will whore |
Future Perfect
| I | will have whored |
| you | will have whored |
| he;she;it | will have whored |
| we | will have whored |
| you | will have whored |
| they | will have whored |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | whore |
| you | whore |
| he;she;it | whore |
| we | whore |
| you | whore |
| they | whore |
Perfect
| I | have whored |
| you | have whored |
| he;she;it | have whored |
| we | have whored |
| you | have whored |
| they | have whored |
Imperfect
| I | whored |
| you | whored |
| he;she;it | whored |
| we | whored |
| you | whored |
| they | whored |
Pluperfect
| I | had whored |
| you | had whored |
| he;she;it | had whored |
| we | had whored |
| you | had whored |
| they | had whored |
Conditional
Present
| I | would whore |
| you | would whore |
| he;she;it | would whore |
| we | would whore |
| you | would whore |
| they | would whore |
Perfect
| I | would have whored |
| you | would have whored |
| he;she;it | would have whored |
| we | would have whored |
| you | would have whored |
| they | would have whored |
Imperative
| you | whore |
| we | Let's whore |
| you | whore |
Verbs conjugated like 'whore'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'whore'
chore,
shore,
whorl,
adore,
bewhore,
blore,
bore,
chare,
choke,
chope,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English hore, from Old English hōre, from Proto-Germanic *hōrǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“loved”), from *keh₂- (“to wish; desire”). Cognate with Dutch hoer, German Hure, Old Norse hóra as well as Sanskrit चारु (cā́ru, “dear”), Latin cārus (“dear, expensive”), and Irish cara (“friend”).
2. The unetymological spelling with wh- superficially denotes a formerly standard pronunciation with an excrescent /w/ (such as in whole), but such a form is hardly found in either commentators on Early Modern English pronunciations or records of traditional dialects (which both explicitly mention its rarity or absence), therefore leaving the spelling somewhat inexplicable. However, this may be because such an excrescent /w/ was absorbed by a following /uː/ (as in words with etymological /w/ such as whom, two) after it became established in the spelling but before our earliest orthoepic records.
Verbs referencing "whore"
Swedish
hora.
Sample Sentences
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Did you see him on that chat show, whoring his new book?
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As for those whose hearts go a whoring after the world, and who set their affections on the things of the earth, they cannot love his appearing [1856, Matthew Henry, An exposition of the Old and New Testament, volume 2, page 42:]
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Whoring after fame, rushing into print, "scoring a scoop,"— alas! some scientists are too human. [1967, Hawaiian Historical Society, The Hawaiian journal of history, volume 1:]
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"That Jeroboam. He whores after power." "And you, my son, lust more decorously?" [1973, Herbert Tarr, A time for loving:]
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Is there any distinction between a nation that whores after a golden calf and one that whores after a black Cadillac? [1976, Matthew Fox, Whee! We, wee, all the way home:]
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If he whores after the new thing, he will only get it wrong and wind up praising the latest charlatans, the floozies of the New. [1978, Wilfrid Sheed, The good word & other words:]
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For them, God is still in heaven, and we his sinful children are still whoring after the twin idols of modernity and materialism. [2010 December 28, Mordechai Beck, “Set apart”, in Christian Century, volume 127, number 26, page 22:]
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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...).