"whoreson" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈhɔːsən/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɔɹ.sən/ [General-American]
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sən Etymology: From Middle English horesone, hureson (also horessone, hores sone), equivalent to whore + son. Compare Dutch hoerenzoon, German Hurensohn (“whoreson”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|horesone}} Middle English horesone, {{m|enm|hureson}} hureson, {{m|enm|horessone}} horessone, {{m|enm|hores sone}} hores sone, {{af|en|whore|son}} whore + son, {{cog|nl|hoerenzoon}} Dutch hoerenzoon, {{cog|de|Hurensohn|t=whoreson}} German Hurensohn (“whoreson”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} whoreson (not comparable)
  1. (obsolete) mean; base; worthless Tags: not-comparable, obsolete
    Sense id: en-whoreson-en-adj-csEAVI9w

Noun

IPA: /ˈhɔːsən/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɔɹ.sən/ [General-American] Forms: whoresons [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sən Etymology: From Middle English horesone, hureson (also horessone, hores sone), equivalent to whore + son. Compare Dutch hoerenzoon, German Hurensohn (“whoreson”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|horesone}} Middle English horesone, {{m|enm|hureson}} hureson, {{m|enm|horessone}} horessone, {{m|enm|hores sone}} hores sone, {{af|en|whore|son}} whore + son, {{cog|nl|hoerenzoon}} Dutch hoerenzoon, {{cog|de|Hurensohn|t=whoreson}} German Hurensohn (“whoreson”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} whoreson (plural whoresons)
  1. (obsolete, archaic) Often used as a term of abuse: an illegitimate or misbegotten child born of unwed parents. Tags: archaic, obsolete
    Sense id: en-whoreson-en-noun-vxFrL3s6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48
  2. (literally) The son of a whore. Tags: literally
    Sense id: en-whoreson-en-noun-1gORoj8S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bastard Translations: ابن زنا (ibn zina) (Arabic), ابن شرموطة (ibn sharmoota) (Arabic), ابن عاهرة (ibn 3aahirah) (Arabic), ابن الشرموطة (ibn iš-šarmuuTa) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), ابن القحبة (ibn el-'aHba) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), ابن المتناكة (ibn el-mitnaka) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), копеле (kopele) [neuter] (Bulgarian), huoranpenikka (Finnish), Hurensohn (German), kurafi [archaic] (Hungarian), су́кин сын (súkin syn) [masculine] (Russian), horunge (Swedish), con đẻ hoang (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.