Dyke vs Whore - What's the difference?
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(Australia, slang) A toilet.
(UK) A ditch (rarely also refers to similar natural features, and to one natural valley, Devil's Dyke, Sussex, due to a legend that the devil dug it).
(UK, mainly S England) An earthwork consisting of a ditch and a parallel rampart.
(British) An embankment to prevent inundation, or a causeway.
(UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, sometimes topped with hedge planting, or a hedge alone, used as a fence.
(UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A dry-stone wall usually forming a boundary to a wood, field or garden.
(British, geology) A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes.
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(vulgar) A prostitute.
(vulgar, pejorative) A person who is considered to be sexually promiscuous (see also: slut).
* 2004 , Dennis Cooper, The Sluts , page 250
(vulgar) A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.
(vulgar) A person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.
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(vulgar) A contemptible person.
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(obsolete) A mistress or wife.
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(vulgar) To prostitute oneself.
(vulgar) To engage the services of a prostitute.
(vulgar) To pimp; to pander.
(vulgar) To pursue false gods.
(vulgar) To pursue false goals.
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As nouns the difference between dyke and whore
is that dyke is or dyke can be (slang|pejorative) a lesbian, particularly one who appears macho or acts in a macho manner this word has been reclaimed, by some, as politically empowering (see usage notes) while whore is (vulgar) a prostitute.As a verb whore is
(vulgar) to prostitute oneself.dyke
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(wikipedia dyke)Etymology 1
Variant of (dike).Noun
(en noun)- 1977 , In Cubbaroo's dim distant past
They built a double dyke.
Back to back in the yard it stood
An architectural dream in wood''
— Ian Slack-Smith, ''The Passing of the Twin Seater'', from ''The Cubbaroo Tales'', 1977. Quoted in ''Aussie Humour , Macmillan, 1988, ISBN 0-7251-0553-4, page 235.
Etymology 2
; various theories suggested. Attested US 1942, in Berrey and Van den Bark’s American Thesaurus of Slang''."dike, dyke, n.3" ''The Oxford English Dictionary . 2nd ed. 1989. OED Online. Oxford UP. 4 Apr. 2000Synonyms
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(en noun)- So after he fucks the shit out of me, he tells me I'm lying about his whore not being Brad.
- The merciless Macdonald – worthy to be a rebel, for that the multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him – from the Western Isles of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied, and fortune on his damned quarrel smiling showed like a rebel's whore .