- 1嫖妓(老式、粗俗、帶道德譴責的說法)
Going with prostitutes — paying women for sex, spoken of as a habit or a way of life. It is a noun made from a verb, and it lives almost entirely in a few fixed phrases: 'go whoring', 'whoring around', 'drinking and whoring'. The picture is of a man out at night, spending money, not going home. The word is old, coarse, and heavy with judgement. You meet it in the Bible, in Shakespeare, in old novels, in songs — it belongs to a world that talked about sin. Nobody in a modern office is going to use it. Because it is built on 'whore', it insults the women involved while it is busy judging the man. There is a second, newer use you will actually see more often, and it is worth knowing so it does not confuse you: online, people say things like 'karma whoring' or 'attention whoring' to mean chasing likes or attention . It is the same insult stretched to mean 'selling yourself cheap for something', and it is also rude. Some people use it about themselves as a joke; it still offends others.
組成whore 當動詞(賣身、嫖)+ -ing 這個把動作變成名詞的字尾。它幾乎只出現在固定搭配裡:go whoring、whoring around,前面常再配一個 drinking。
同家族的字
- whorethe verb it is built on
- whorehousesame root word, joined to 'house'
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
whoringnoun
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Synonym of prostitution, having sex for money; (figurative) disgracing oneself for money; having promiscuous sex.
- Scott... had told me at the Closerie des Lilas how he wrote what he thought were good stories, and which really were good stories for the Post, and then changed them for submission, knowing exactly how he must make the twists that made them into salable magazine stories. I had been shocked at this and I said I thought it was whoring. He said it was whoring but that he had to do it...
- Yet she increased her whorings, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt and lusted after her paramours
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。