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Athanasian wench

obsolete A derogatory term for a lascivious woman who readily has sex with any man who asks for it. Taken from the Athanasian Creed, an early Christian statement of belief from at least the 6th century, the opening words of which translate as "whosoever wishes." Sir, how dare you. I am not one of your Athanasian wenches, ready to indulge your lust at a moment's notice!

attention whore

A derogatory term for someone who seeks attention in desperate, obvious, or inappropriate ways. Although it is gender neutral, it is more often used against women. Why do you always act that way at parties? It's like you're an attention whore or something.
See also: attention, whore

hockey whore

offensive slang A woman who pursues sexual relationships with ice hockey players. It's nothing serious—she's just some hockey whore he hooked up with after the game.
See also: hockey, whore

link whore

rude slang A person who makes constant and conspicuous efforts to drive Internet traffic to their own webpage by posting links to it across other areas of the Internet. Potentially offensive. There are so many link whores filling this forum with garbage posts that it's become nearly unreadable.
See also: link, whore

link whoring

rude slang The practice of making constant and conspicuous efforts to drive Internet traffic to one's own webpage by posting links to it across other areas of the Internet. Potentially offensive. The link whoring that goes on in this forum has made it nearly unreadable in recent times.
See also: link, whore

once a priest, always a priest

1. Once a man chooses to become a priest of the church, especially the Catholic church, it must remain his vocation for the rest of his life. You must weigh this decision carefully, Tom, for it is not one to be made lightly. Once a priest, always a priest.
2. A person who dedicated their life to serving God as part of the clergy will always retain certain tendencies and values gained from that position, even if they leave later on in life. I left the church a few years ago, but I still find myself examining what happens in my life and adapting it into sermons, of sorts. Once a priest, always a priest, I suppose.
See also: always, once, priest

once a whore, always a whore

offensive The belief that someone who has engaged in unscrupulous or immoral behavior, especially for personal gain, will always be associated with it or prone to do it. A: "Well, you know what they say—once a whore, always a whore." B: "Are you kidding me? She gave up that lifestyle a long time ago!" Of course Albert did another ad for that creep—he'll do anything for money. Once a whore, always a whore.
See also: always, once, whore

whore around

1. offensive slang To have sex with different people for money; to work as a prostitute. After losing her job at the factory, the poor woman was forced to whore around just to keep herself fed.
2. offensive slang By extension, to engage in promiscuous sexual activity with multiple people. I thought he wanted a monogamous relationship with me, but I heard he's been whoring around all over town.
See also: around, whore

whore out

1. vulgar slang To exploit someone's body for paid sexual interactions with others; to force someone into prostitution. A noun or pronoun can be used between "whore" and "out." It was when I realized that he was trying to whore me out that I finally sought help to get out of that horrible relationship. It is widely known that drug cartel has been whoring out girls from the local villages.
2. vulgar slang To make one's services or abilities available to someone else for payment, especially in a way that compromises or goes against one's personal ethics or principles. A noun or pronoun can be used between "whore" and "out." He was a really promising artist, until he started whoring himself out to corporate clients. We do not whore our staff's talents out to other firms.
See also: out, whore

your mother is a whore

rude slang An extremely offensive insult meant to imply that the other person is utterly lacking in class, intelligence, or character. You're a despicable cur, and your mother's a whore! I'll make sure you never work in this town again!
See also: mother, whore
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Once a priest, always a priest,

 and Once a whore, always a whore.
Prov. A person who has done a certain kind of job will always have the characteristics of people who do that job, even after he or she no longer does that kind of work. (This can be applied to many different occupations.) Alan: My cousin left the clergy, but boy! He still preaches at me all the time. Jane: Once a priest, always a priest, huh?
See also: always, once, priest
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

whore out

v.
1. Slang To make someone's services available in a way that compromises one's principles for personal gain: In order to earn money, the Shakespearean actor whored himself out to amusement parks. The literary agency whored out its talent to ghostwrite books.
2. Vulgar Slang To make someone's body available for sexual relations in exchange for payment.
See also: out, whore
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.

hockey-whore

and puck bunny
n. a kind of groupie that follows hockey players. (Puck bunny is a play on fuck bunny.) She doesn’t like the game, she’s just a hockey-whore. Just a cheap, skanky puck bunny, that’s her!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • Athanasian wench
  • blob
  • foundry
  • nut factory
  • nut-foundry
  • nuthatch
  • nuthouse
  • alley cat
  • saltine
  • a blue-eyed boy
References in periodicals archive
Caption: CONFRONTATION--This is a snapshot from a video showing a man (arm at left) calling a woman (right) a "whore," to the obvious shock of the woman in the middle.
Selected pieces from her SF Weekly column, "The Whore Next Door," make up the majority of the book and offer a picaresque, first-person account of Bay Area sex culture.
He noted that two of them, Trader Joe's and Wegmans, also nurture socially conscious cultures, similar to that of Whore Foods, which Mackey promotes as "Conscious Capitalism."
Viewed by Protestants as a version of the Scarlet Whore, a Catholic mistress was nominally subordinate to Protestant English masculinity but potentially the subversive agent of foreign power.
Our source added: "When Blake called Amy a crack whore she was livid.
She also wrote that the "overweight old whore" would be celebrating at the cost of the destruction of a family.
After he calls a local reporter (Portia DeRossi) a "two dollar whore", the unions go on strike and things unravel around concert promoter Rod Blue (Joel Edgerton).
Of all the labels and identities that heterosexual teens have, gay teens have two that are also used to define heterosexual women's only options: "virgin" and "whore." As the old Italian joke goes: "All women are whores, except my mother.
(84) Randolph Trumbach gives the example of an early eighteenth-century youth, "from a family of pious and prosperous Dissenting tradesmen," who succumbed to a long-held curiosity and walked and talked with a whore in the theatre district.
From an American liberal perspective, it must be admitted that Islamic societies are so repressive that the Whore of Babylon is bound to have unmistakable appeal.
I used to think of the whore legends mostly as rubble that had to be cleared.
Specifically, the central claims are that the a-declension reflects the Idealized Cognitive Models (Lakoff 1987) of "women as the second sex" and "woman as Madonna and whore"; and that cognitive linguistics provides an adequate account for the category structure in terms of schematicity and metaphorical extension.
The soldier said it was a federal road and said, 'Stand aside, filthy Indian whore.' 'No, I told him, I won't let you into my house to scare my children."' She says one soldier hit her baby with a stick.
Hard-line Modernists like Cedric Price and Peter Smithson always rather despised the Bride as an old whore. The comfort, and the eccentricity (elegant as it was), put off such sternly dedicated men.
"Never heard of a whore keeping a diary," the investigator said.