different between whore vs beach

English

Alternative forms

• whoore (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English hore, from Old English h?re, from Proto-Germanic *h?r?, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh?ros (“loved”), from *keh?- (“to wish; desire”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hô, IPA^(key): /h??/
• (General American) enPR: hôr, IPA^(key): /h??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: h?r, IPA^(key): /ho(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ho?/
• (nonstandard but traditional, several locations) enPR: ho?or, IPA^(key): /h??/, /h??/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?)
• Homophone: hoar
• Homophone: hoe (non-rhotic with dough-door merger (AAVE, non-rhotic Southern accents))
• Hyphenation: whore

Noun

whore (plural whores)

1. (derogatory) Synonym of prostitute: a person (especially a woman) who offers sexual services for payment.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 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.

   • 1969, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, “The Boxer”, Bridge over Troubled Water, Columbia Records:

     I come looking for a job
     But I get no offers
     Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue

2. (vulgar, derogatory) A person who is sexually promiscuous; a 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.

3. (vulgar, derogatory) A person who is unscrupulous, especially one who compromises their principles for gain.
4. (vulgar, derogatory) A person who will violate behavioral standards to achieve something desired.
5. (vulgar, derogatory) A contemptible person.

Synonyms

• (prostitute): See also Thesaurus:prostitute
• (promiscuous woman): See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

whore (third-person singular simple present whores, present participle whoring, simple past and past participle whored)

1. (intransitive, vulgar) To prostitute oneself.
2. (intransitive, vulgar) To engage the services of a prostitute.
3. (transitive, vulgar) To pimp; to pander.
4. (transitive, vulgar) To promote shamelessly.

   Did you see him on that chat show, whoring his new book?

5. (intransitive, vulgar) To pursue false gods.
6. (intransitive, vulgar) To pursue false goals.
7. (transitive, slang, video games, vulgar, derogatory) To overuse something.

Synonyms

• (to prostitute oneself): sell one's body, turn tricks; see also Thesaurus:prostitute oneself
• (to pimp): pander, turn out; see also Thesaurus:pimp out
• (to promote shamelessly): tout, pimp

Derived terms

• whore around
• whore out

Translations

Anagrams

• Hower, how're, hower

English

Etymology

From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English bæ?e, be?e (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?og- (“flowing water”).

Cognate with Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), Swedish bäck (“stream, brook, creek”). More at batch, beck.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /bit??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bi?t??/
• Rhymes: -i?t?
• Homophone: beech

Noun

beach (plural beaches)

1. The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
2. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
3. (Britain dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
4. (motorsports, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap

Synonyms

• (horizontal strip of land adjoining water): sand, strand, backshore

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???
• ? Zulu: ibhishi

Translations

Verb

beach (third-person singular simple present beaches, present participle beaching, simple past and past participle beached)

1. (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Salt Water," [1]

     When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.

2. (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 90, [2]

     It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore.

   • 1974, Homer, Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Doubleday, Book Two, lines 530-31, p. 53,

     Great Aías led twelve ships from Sálamis

     and beached them where Athenians formed for battle.

3. (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.

Synonyms

• strand

Derived terms

• unbeached

Translations

Anagrams

• Bache, bache

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English beach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bit?/

Noun

beach m (plural beachs)

1. (Congo) port where goods and passengers embark and debark
   • 2006 March 14, Tshiala David, Baisse du trafic au beach Ngobila entre Kinshasa et Brazzaville, in Le Potentiel:

     C’est ainsi qu’elles ont décidé d’embarquer leurs marchandises dans des pirogues motorisés qui desservent les beachs privés entre les deux rives du fleuve Congo.

   • 2007, Jean-Alexis M'Foutou, La langue française au Congo-Brazzaville:

     Le Beach de Brazzaville hier réputé lieu de violence, de viols et de braquages, présent aujourd’hui des conditions de sécurité plutôt rassurantes.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos (compare Middle Welsh beg-egyr, byg-egyr (“drone”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ik-, *b?oyk- (compare Czech v?ela, Latin f?cus), enlargement of *b?ey- (compare Welsh by-daf (“beehive”), English bee).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?ax/

Noun

beach f (genitive singular beiche, nominative plural beacha)

1. bee (insect)

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "beach" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ik-, *b?oik-, enlargement of *b??-, *b?ei-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?x/

Noun

beach m (genitive singular beacha, plural beachan)

1. bee
2. beehive
3. wasp

Synonyms

• seillean (“bee”)

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• “beach” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “beach”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN, page 31
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language