Read full poem →'The play may pass--but that strange creature, Shore,
I can't--indeed now--I so hate a whore--'
Just as a blockhead rubs his thoughtless skull,
Dictionary Entry
Any person (especially a woman) who has sexual intercourse or engages in other sexual activity for payment, especially as a means of livelihood.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “whore”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Silence! the knave's repute, the whore's good name,
The only honour of the wishing dame;
Read full poem →I have told no one but you, Holy Mary. My mother would call me "whore",
and spit upon me; the priest would have me repent, and have
Read full poem →And think to ruin, where it seemed to raise.
These are, as some infamous bawd, or whore,
Should praise a matron; what would hurt her more?
To The Memory Of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left UsbyBen Jonson
Read full poem →And think to ruin where it seemed to raise.
These are as some infamous bawd or whore
Should praise a matron. What could hurt her more?
Read full poem →“You whore!” he said.
Read full poem →Weall looked at our examination sheets. I thought about my father. Then
I thought about Lilly Fischman. Lilly Fischman, I thought, you are a whore,
an evil woman, wiggling your body in front of us and singing like that,
Read full poem →Deflowered and stainËd in unlawful bed.
Why stay I? men point at me for a whore,
Shame, that should make me blush, I have no more."
Read full poem →I know not what men think should thee so move[366]
She is not chaste that's kept, but a dear whore:[367]
Thy fear is than her body valued more. 30