whoreman
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English horeman, equivalent to whore + man. Compare Danish horkarl (“whoremonger”), Swedish horkarl (“whoremaster; fornicator”).
Noun edit
whoreman (plural whoremen)
- (obsolete) An adulterer
- (informal) A pimp
- 2012, James Carlos Blake, The Pistoleer:
- 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.
Synonyms edit
- (pimp): whoremaster, pander, pimp