whoremanEtymologyFrom Middle English horeman, equivalent to whore + man. Compare Danish horkarl (“whoremonger”), Swedish horkarl (“whoremaster; fornicator”).nounAn adultererA pimp“Charlie Leamus, one of the boys l'd fooled with, told me Pierson was really a whoreman and would be peddling the girls in the wagon after dark, out at Jackson's Hollow, a mile or so out of town.”