A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1554, 1647
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(Quhorisch,) Whoorish, Whorische, adj. [e.m.E. whorish (1535), whoorish (1560).] Whorish, meretricious. Also fig. Cf. Hurische adj. —1554 Knox III 212.
For so long hes it [sc. the Mass] bene … in decking with that whorische garment 1647 Dunferm. Kirk S. 23.
Convict … in intertenying … scandalous whoorish drunken lowns
