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Madonna vs Whore - What's the difference?

madonna | whore |

As nouns the difference between madonna and whore

is that madonna is (skateboarding) a one-footed lien to tail trick, where the front foot is taken off and kicked out straight down behind the board while whore is (vulgar) a prostitute.

As a verb whore is

(vulgar) to prostitute oneself.

madonna

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus.
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  • * 1835 , Vol. XI, page 652 (June 1835):
  • We feel bound to add, however, that it is not very likely, in the usual chances of events, that such names as Alaric Attila Watts should have met in matrimony with those of Zillah Madonna Wiffen; and an unkind world may suggest a mystification somewhere.
  • * 2005 Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics , Allen Lane (2005), ISBN 0713998067, page 184:
  • But celebrities actually have a weak effect on baby names. As of 2000, the pop star Madonna had sold 130 million records worldwide but hadn't generated even the ten copycat namings?in California, no less?required to make the master index of four thousand names from which the sprawling list of girls' names on page 227 was drawn.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "Madonna") * Madonna lily ----

    whore

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (vulgar) A prostitute.
  • (vulgar, pejorative) A person who is considered to be sexually promiscuous (see also: slut).
  • * 2004 , Dennis Cooper, The Sluts , page 250
  • So after he fucks the shit out of me, he tells me I'm lying about his whore not being Brad.
  • (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.
  • * c. 1606 , , Act 1 Scene 2
  • 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 .

    Derived terms

    * he-whore * whoredom * whorehouse * whoreish * whorelike * whorely * whoremonger

    Synonyms

    * (prostitute) See also * (promiscuous woman) See also

    Verb

    (whor)
  • (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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  • See also

    * attention whore * concubine * cute hoor (Hiberno-English) * graphics whore * hooker * harlot * stat whore * whore out * whorey * whorish, whoreish * AIDS whore, crackwhore

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