Whore

This is one of the few words in English in which the _wh_ phoneme is realised with the sound '_h_'. (Most are sounded with the -w_. See w_and wh_.) whore sounds like 'haw', /hO:r/ or in the North-east of England, Scotland and other places as 'hoor' /hu:r/.

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.