whoringとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

whoring (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 whorings)

1. Synonym of prostitution, having sex for money; (figurative) disgracing oneself for money; having promiscuous sex.
   • 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 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