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This is one of the few words in English in which the _wh_ phoneme is realised, in all accents with the sound '-h-'. (Most are sounded with the -w-. See W - Wh.) whore sounds like 'haw', IPA: /hɔːr/, or in the North-east of England, Scotland and other places as 'hoor' IPA: /huːər/.
The word was common in Shakespeare's times to mean a prostitute. Nowadays, in colloquial speech, it is an insult used about a woman, usually with a connotation of sexual looseness.
