Whore

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: /hɔː^r/, or in the North-east of England, Scotland and other places as 'hoor' IPA: /huː^ər/.

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.