different between whored vs whorey

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /h??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??d/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ho(?)?d/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ho?d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d
• Homophones: hoard, horde

Verb

whored

1. simple past tense and past participle of whore

English

Etymology

whore +? -y

Pronunciation

Adjective

whorey (comparative whorier, superlative whoriest)

1. (vulgar, derogatory) Slutty, promiscuous.
   • 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.

   That is a very whorey, showy dress, Sara.

Translations

Anagrams

• Howery