whoreman

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whoreman

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

noun whoremen

obsolete An adulterer
informal A pimp 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.
Similar: whoremaster, pander, pimp

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@misc{whoreman_2026,
  title = {whoreman},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/whoreman},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}