# Is "whore" too many fucking syllables? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 23, 2002, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347 "2002-07-23T06:49:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/1 "2002-07-23T06:49:26Z")
I mean, really…is it? Have we sunk so low as a society that it’s considered disparaging to compare a person to an implement of small-scale agriculture? Is this supposed to be some kind of slam? “Yer a HO!” Yeah, and you’re a pair of pruning shears, or possibly some type of rake. Roger Swain probably stirs his compost heap with your ass. Wouldn’t be surprised, someone with a soil pH as low as yours. What’s next on the insult front, sewing supplies? “You skanky-ass thimble!!” “Pinkin’ fuckin’ shears!!!” “BOBBIN!!!” Ho. Serge _that,_ baste-stitchers. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/2 "2002-07-23T07:38:16Z")
Avaunt thee, sirrah. ---
**Author:** ![bifar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@bifar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bifar)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/3 "2002-07-23T10:18:57Z")
I prefer ‘HOAR!!!’, even though this could be misconstrued as accusing someone of being a kind of frost. ---
**Author:** ![Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nenya_Elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/4 "2002-07-23T10:24:37Z")
MWAHAHAHAHA! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/5 "2002-07-23T10:42:30Z")
Well, as you know, baste-stitchers are the _worst_. Very good rant. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/6 "2002-07-23T12:02:04Z")
So someone who pursues women of questionable morals would be a hoarhound? The association with candy CAN’T BE AN ACCIDENT! It’s a plot. A filthy commie…errr, terrorist plot. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/7 "2002-07-23T13:40:14Z")
You just can’t trust those turkey basters. That’s all I’m sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![BooBoo316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/8 "2002-07-23T14:30:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dijon Warlock \* > **"You skanky-ass thimble!!"** Don’t know about the “whore vs ho” debate, but this is my new general insult. ---
**Author:** ![MachV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@MachV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachV)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/9 "2002-07-23T14:32:07Z")
There’s a “can opener” joke in here somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/10 "2002-07-23T16:12:01Z")
I first saw the “ho” spelling in a 1980’s SNL sketch with Eddie Murphy. He came on as the author of a self-help book entitled, _I Wanna Be A Ho_, and the point of the “book” was to teach the reader how to do that. Though the “Ho” pronunciation might have been current in some quarters before that, that’s the first time I saw it spelled that way. I suspect it took off from there. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/11 "2002-07-23T16:36:03Z")
Last night’s rerun of the FX drama _The Shield_ had a disgruntled former boyfriend spraypainting in large letters ‘HOE’ on the door of his former inamorata. After they reconciled, he tried to scrub it off, failed, and decided the next best thing was to disguise it by adding a large ‘S’ to the front of his previous comment. - Rick ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/12 "2002-07-23T18:49:35Z")
Mmmmmm, whorehound - I mean hoarhound. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/13 "2002-07-23T22:39:27Z")
> [@](#): > > “You skanky-ass thimble!!” Not to be confused with a “Skanky ass-thimble.” Happy ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/14 "2002-07-23T22:57:56Z")
You know, when I was growing up in the Bronx it was always pronounced it HOO-er. I was amazed when one of my friends told me this curse-word actually appeared in the bible! But in the bible it was spelled “whore,” nothing like the way it was pronounced. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/15 "2002-07-23T23:54:41Z")
It’s the next new Québecois dating game show: Beaus ‘n’ Heaus! ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/16 "2002-07-24T08:24:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dijon Warlock \* > \*\*Yeah, and you’re a pair of pruning shears, or possibly some type of rake. \*\* From [dictionary.com](http://dictionary.com): > [@](#): > > rake > n. > An immoral or dissolute person; a libertine. > > [Short for rakehell.] I guess “rakehell” was too many fucking syllables. ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Doll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/17 "2002-07-24T11:05:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dijon Warlock \* > \*\*“You skanky-ass thimble!!” > \*\* Please Sir [or madam…whatever], may I use that as a sig? It’s small, funny and crazy enough to work. ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/18 "2002-07-24T19:27:59Z")
Hey, I got nothing against Turkey Basters. I have some friends who are turkey basters. They should be able to baste in peace, so long as the man and fowl are both consenting adults. Just so long as they don’t baste around me. [sub]Note the sarcasm[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/19 "2002-07-24T19:58:39Z")
I still get an occasional giggle from this billboard that was (and may still be) in Manitowoc, WI when I was growing up. It was a sign for a restaurant. They wanted the world to know that they had homemade bakery. But they wanted it in really big letters, and didn’t have enough room, so the abbreviated it and, in really big type, proclaimed to the world that they served “Ho-Made Bakery!” I figured they must have bussed the Ho in from Milwaukee. -lv ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347/20 "2002-07-25T01:59:04Z")
_snort_ I’ve surfed the “Trading Spaces” BB a few times and always got a chuckle out of the way they refer to the homeowners as “HOs.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-whore-too-many-fucking-syllables/120347.md?page=2)