WHOREMONGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whoremonger mean? 

• WHOREMONGER (noun)
  The noun WHOREMONGER has 2 senses:

1. a prostitute's customer

2. a pimp who procures whores

  Familiarity information: WHOREMONGER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHOREMONGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A prostitute's customer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

john; trick; whoremaster; whoremonger

Hypernyms ("whoremonger" is a kind of...):

client; customer (someone who pays for goods or services)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A pimp who procures whores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

whoremaster; whoremonger

Hypernyms ("whoremonger" is a kind of...):

fancy man; pandar; pander; panderer; pimp; ponce; procurer (someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce))

 Context examples 

I am not in the least provoked at the sight of a lawyer, a pickpocket, a colonel, a fool, a lord, a gamester, a politician, a whoremonger, a physician, an evidence, a suborner, an attorney, a traitor, or the like; this is all according to the due course of things: but when I behold a lump of deformity and diseases, both in body and mind, smitten with pride, it immediately breaks all the measures of my patience; neither shall I be ever able to comprehend how such an animal, and such a vice, could tally together.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)