"whoremaster" meaning in English

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        "2": "whore",
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      "expansion": "whore + master",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From earlier hore-maister, equivalent to whore + master.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whoremasters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "whoremaster (plural whoremasters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, page 166",
          "text": "Noiselessly the fat whoremaster glided across the floor. Jimmy Earls the brothel creeper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who uses the services of prostitutes."
      ],
      "id": "en-whoremaster-en-noun-iOcbnek7",
      "links": [
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          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
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        [
          "prostitute",
          "prostitute"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory) A man who uses the services of prostitutes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "99 0 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "man who uses the services of prostitutes",
          "word": "hoerenloper"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 0 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "poutaniáris",
          "sense": "man who uses the services of prostitutes",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "πουτανιάρης"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A pimp."
      ],
      "id": "en-whoremaster-en-noun-BVx8Ci9A",
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        [
          "pimp",
          "pimp"
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    },
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        {
          "text": "a. 2000, Dale Brown, quoted in Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports by Andrew Zimbalist\nThis one-billion-dollar TV contract is the paramount example of the injustices in the game. Look at the money we make off predominately poor black kids. We're the whoremasters."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An exploiter of people."
      ],
      "id": "en-whoremaster-en-noun-a0YTD9M7",
      "links": [
        [
          "exploiter",
          "exploiter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) An exploiter of people."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 99",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "exploiter of people",
          "word": "uitzuiger"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whoremaster"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "whoremasterly"
    }
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        "2": "hore-maister"
      },
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      "name": "m"
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    {
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "whore",
        "3": "master"
      },
      "expansion": "whore + master",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From earlier hore-maister, equivalent to whore + master.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whoremasters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "whoremaster (plural whoremasters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "English derogatory terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, page 166",
          "text": "Noiselessly the fat whoremaster glided across the floor. Jimmy Earls the brothel creeper.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who uses the services of prostitutes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "prostitute",
          "prostitute"
        ]
      ],
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        "(derogatory) A man who uses the services of prostitutes."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A pimp."
      ],
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        [
          "pimp",
          "pimp"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a. 2000, Dale Brown, quoted in Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports by Andrew Zimbalist\nThis one-billion-dollar TV contract is the paramount example of the injustices in the game. Look at the money we make off predominately poor black kids. We're the whoremasters."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An exploiter of people."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "exploiter",
          "exploiter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) An exploiter of people."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "man who uses the services of prostitutes",
      "word": "hoerenloper"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "poutaniáris",
      "sense": "man who uses the services of prostitutes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "πουτανιάρης"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "exploiter of people",
      "word": "uitzuiger"
    }
  ],
  "word": "whoremaster"
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