Dictionary entry
Whore-house
Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːhaʊs/
Pronunciation
/ˈhɔːhaʊs/
Myanmar Meaning
ပြည့်တန်ဆာအိမ်။
Definition
whore /hↄ:(r)/ n ( dated or derog ) (က) ဖာ။ (ခ) မိန္းမပ်က္။ ❏ whore-house n ( dated or derog ) ဇိမ္နန္း။
Examples
- ‘Each room is occupied by girls like me
- girls with broken homes; rape victims
- prostitutes
- and whores.’
- ‘The whores in the brothel next door to my work are listening to REM's ‘Everybody Hurts’ on their radio.’
- ‘The waterfront was busy
- traders and merchants displaying their items for sale
- while on the corners of the streets hookers and whores waited for their evening's employment.’
- ‘At the Bridewell in London
- single women suspected of being whores were inspected by other women to establish if they were virgins.’
- ‘The album is content to rely on the old hip-hop cliches
- piling on the swear words and overloading each track with references to whores
- pimps
- hookers and drugs.’
- ‘‘Most of the money was spent on booze and women of easy virtue - whores in other words
- ’ he told me in an interview.’
- ‘Women have two kinds of power
- historically: as the courtesan and as the whore.’
- ‘Sherman typically enacts a series of portraits - Elizabethan whores
- gangster's molls
- and now a series of clowns.’
- ‘From Kings to paupers
- all of them had their mistresses and concubines and whores.’
- ‘He finally shed his obsession with cross-eyed prostitutes when he learned to put Descartes before the whores.’
- ‘The popular belief amongst local lads is that the inmates at the Magdalene are whores and trollops.’
- ‘A whore captivates a rich man with her coquettish prettiness and is rescued from life on the streets.’
- ‘He was also involved in a string of violent incidents with the swordsmen and whores of the Roman streets
- ending with his killing of Ranuccio Tomassoni in a gang fight in May 1606.’
- ‘After learning that his son visits a whore
- Wang Lung goes to the prostitute
- paying her not to see his son anymore.’
- ‘In the streets he is accosted by whores
- hustlers and queer-bashers.’
- ‘In this particular case
- however
- the child born to a whore is named after a particular adulterer.’
- ‘In a matter of decades
- Makiki's artistic focus had shifted from the virtues of the Madonna to the transgressions of the whore.’
- ‘One woman reporter
- in tears
- told Weffer about being called a puta
- a whore
- when she tried to enter a poor neighborhood wearing a press pass.’
- ‘He didn't need to surround himself with sluts and whores.’
- ‘She falls in love with John but he attacks her calling her whore and strumpet.’