whoring

whoring

English

Verb

whoring

1. present participle of whore

Noun

whoring (plural whorings)

1. Synonym of prostitution, having sex for money; (figuratively) disgracing oneself for money; having promiscuous sex.
   • 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, p. 151:

     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...

   • 1989, New Revised Standard Version, Book of Ezekiel, 23:19–20:

     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

   Stop whoring around, fer chrissakes.