Whoreman

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An adulterer obsolete
  2. 2
    A pimp informal

    "Charlie Leamus, one of the boys l'd fooled with, told me Pierson was really a whoreman and would be peddling the girls in the wagon after dark, out at Jackson's Hollow, a mile or so out of town."

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bludgerbullypanderpimpruffianwhoremaster

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"Charlie Leamus, one of the boys l'd fooled with, told me Pierson was really a whoreman and would be peddling the girls in the wagon after dark, out at Jackson's Hollow, a mile or so out of town."

Etymology

From Middle English horeman, equivalent to whore + man. Compare Danish horkarl (“whoremonger”), Swedish horkarl (“whoremaster; fornicator”).

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