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whore·son

 (hôr′sən) Archaic
n.
A contemptible or detestable person.
adj.
Abominable; detestable.
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whoreson

(ˈhɔːsən)
n
1. a bastard
2. a scoundrel; wretch
adj
vile or hateful
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whore•son

(ˈhɔr sən, ˈhoʊr-; often ˈhʊər-)

n. Archaic.
1. a bastard.
2. wretch; scoundrel.
[1200–50]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.whoreson - the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parentswhoreson - the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
by-blow, illegitimate, illegitimate child, love child, bastard
offspring, progeny, issue - the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"
2.whoreson - insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, asshole, bastard, son of a bitch, SOB, cocksucker, shit
dirty word, vulgarism, obscenity, smut, filth - an offensive or indecent word or phrase
disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
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I encountered a chaplet or string of miserable and unfortunate people, and did for them what my sense of duty demands of me, and as for the rest be that as it may; and whoever takes objection to it, saving the sacred dignity of the senor licentiate and his honoured person, I say he knows little about chivalry and lies like a whoreson villain, and this I will give him to know to the fullest extent with my sword;" and so saying he settled himself in his stirrups and pressed down his morion; for the barber's basin, which according to him was Mambrino's helmet, he carried hanging at the saddle-bow until he could repair the damage done to it by the galley slaves.
O whoreson scoundrel, how ungrateful you are, you see yourself raised from the dust of the earth to be a titled lord, and the return you make for so great a benefit is to speak evil of her who has conferred it upon you!"
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You whoreson conjuring scab, do you remember how you cozened me with a ho
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ESMOREIT Silence, whoreson, your crime Is even worse than any of that.
A goodly play about Esmoreit Of Sicily, the king's son, And a farce to follow thereafter
but she is a brave lass, and a right and stout one, and fit to be helpmate to any knight-errant that is or is to be, who may make her his lady: the whoreson wench, what pith she has and what a voice!
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He berates another as a 'whoreson beetle-headed, flap-eared knave!' for spilling his water (128).
'A Mad-Cap Ruffian and a Swearing Jack': Braggart Courtship from Miles Gloriosus to The Taming of the Shrew
15) of the mother of his natural son, Edmund, a "whoreson" by adultery, within earshot.
King Lear and the Catholic drama of three households and four loves
The blue sky stretches out and every whoreson is a giggling minion though some further rhombus of peace may be offered us, the beauty of the ineluctable strains.
From the American folkways series
Hal encourages Falstaff's irreverence with his characteristic, and just as flippant, responses to Falstaff's taunts--usually composed of elaborate insults ("thou whoreson, impudent, emoboss'd rascal" [3.3.156-57], for example)--and/or references to Falstaff's weight.
Biting more than "we" can chew: the royal appetite in Richard II and 1 and 2 Henry IV
steamfitter; otherwise the town TB doctor, a whoreson of the adamantine
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Goines's prodigious output includes Whoreson, Dopefiend, and White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief and the books sample from his sojourn as a heroin addict.
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