whoremaster

English

Etymology

From earlier hore-maister, equivalent to whore +‎ master.

Noun

whoremaster (plural whoremasters)

1. (derogatory) A man who uses the services of prostitutes.
   • 2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 166:

     Noiselessly the fat whoremaster glided across the floor. Jimmy Earls the brothel creeper.

2. A pimp.
3. (figurative) An exploiter of people.
   • a. 2000, Dale Brown, quoted in Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports by Andrew Zimbalist

     This 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.

Derived terms

• whoremasterly

Translations

man who uses the services of prostitutes

• Dutch: hoerenloper (nl)
• Greek: πουτανιάρης (el) m (poutaniáris)

pimp — see pimp

exploiter of people

• Dutch: uitzuiger (nl)