单词 | whoring |
释义 | whoringn. The action or an act of whore v.; fornication, sexual promiscuity. Also figurative. In early use spec. in biblical context, chiefly in to go a whoring: the action or practice of idolatry or unfaithfulness to the true God (cf. whoredom n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun] heathenessec900 heathenshipa1000 heathendomc1000 idolatrya1325 mammetryc1330 spiritual fornicationa1340 whoredomc1350 prepucya1382 miscreancea1393 imagery1395 gentility?a1425 paganismc1425 paganityc1450 prepucec1475 Mahometry1481 superstitiousness1526 uncircumcision1526 whoring1530 idolry1535 paynimhood1543 image-worshipping1544 paganrya1550 idololatry1550 gentilism1561 old religion1567 heathenishness1571 image worship1572 heathenry1577 irreligiousness?1577 idolatrousness1583 uncircumcisedness1583 irreligion1598 ethnicism1600 infidelity1603 superstition1603 heathenism1605 idolism1608 miscreancy1611 misreligion1623 Baalisma1625 iconolatry1624 idolomania1624 idolomany1624 idolizing1637 idol-worship1667 ethnicity1772 symbololatry1828 Baal-worship1834 irreligionism1843 gentiledom1844 triology1894 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > womanizing or associating with loose women whore-playa1325 whoring1530 whore-huntinga1533 whoremonging1549 palliardy1568 queanry1568 queaning1569 harloting1575 wenching1590 whorism1598 coney-catching1616 whoremastery1618 woman palaver1803 molrowing1860 whorehopping1916 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Deut. xxxi. f. lviv This people will goo a whorynge after straunge goddes off the londe whother they goo and will forsake me. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ps. cv[i]. 38 Thus were they stayned with their owne workes, and wente a whoringe with their owne invencions. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. i. 118 This is the fruite of whoring . View more context for this quotation 1619 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 153 Their private whorings, drunkennesse and such like ryotts. a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) 582 All the Visions contemporating with Babylon's times must be expounded of such things only as belong to the times of Babylon's whoring. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 60. ⁋2 The common Diversions of Men of Fashion; that is to say, in Whoring, Drinking, and Gaming. a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 472 When with Whoring, and Gaming, and Revelling, they have disabled themselves from paying their Butchers. 1855 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy v. 73 The whole of this man's conduct tended to..fighting, whoring, and roguery! 1964 W. Young Eros Denied v. xiv. 171 Some whores do get married... They usually come back, the ones who marry; not because of the attractions of whoring, but because the marriages don't work. 2010 @juicymorsel 16 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 13 June 2019) All those manly men doing manly things: drinking, shooting, whoring. Compounds With following adverb. whoring around n. the action or practice of behaving in a sexually promiscuous way. ΚΠ 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel x. 106 He didn't want to get married, but it was hell living up here in Nevada all winter without a girl, and he was sick of whoring around. 1942 Lancaster (Pa.) Law Rev. 47 246 Respondent came home intoxicated and accused his wife of ‘whoring around’ in the presence of her friends. 2004 C. Hiaasen Skinny Dip xii. 120 How come you put up with all his whoring around? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). whoringadj. Sexually promiscuous, lecherous, fornicating; that is a whore. In early use also: sinful. Also as a term of abuse: contemptible, objectionable. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [adjective] > associating with loose women whoring1563 wenching1609 whoremasterly1609 pornerastic1870 whorehopping1954 1563 L. Humphrey Nobles or of Nobilitye ii. sig. n.iiii It for mans sinnes such times happen that it please god, with that plague to reclayme and chasten his whorynge & roaming people. 1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. x. 185 That either we must have a Married or a Whoring Clergy. 1710 L. Milbourne Moderate Cabal 4 An Upstart, Whoring, Sodomitic Lord. 1764 T. Bridges Homer Travestie II. v. 11 If you meet the whoring Goddess, Ram thy stiff weapon through her boddice. 1871 Ipswich Jrnl. 25 Apr. 3/2 Zachariah Simpson, the whoring banker, will give anybody £5 to flog old Barkham. 1958 J. Carew Wild Coast ix. 124 He was a drinking, whoring, kindly savage son-of-a-bitch. 1992 B. Anderson Portrait of Artist's Wife (1993) i. 10 They knew how phoney the whole thing was, but never mind because they also knew that..drunken, whoring old Dad was a good, a great writer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1530adj.1563 |
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