different between whorey vs taxonomy

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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