Generalized Whore

[Benjamin Barrett]

I thought "sushi whore" was a funny, innovative marketing term
(www.sushiwhore.com) when I first spotted it earlier this year at Mashiko.

Today, though, I overheard a woman say, "I'm, like, a big clothes whore"
outside Caffe Fiore in Seattle in reference to her not having a large enough
closet. "A clothes whore" gets no fewer than 332 Googits, "a sushi whore"
25, "a beer whore" 127, "a dog whore" 112 (though that includes many
beastiality references), "a coffee whore" 150, and "a Starbucks whore" no
fewer than 70.

It seems an X whore is someone who has a fondness for X beyond what is
normal. I wonder if the Starbucks reference is more at being exploited by X,
though. Surely that is part of the semantics at least some of the time.

The spelling of "ho" is basically non-existent. 1 Googit for "a clothes ho",
zero for sushi, 1 (maybe two) actual hits for beer ho, zero for dog ho,
three for coffee ho, and zero for Starbucks ho.

Counts for "whore" are raw Google numbers. Counts for "ho" are only hits
with this use of "ho".

Benjamin Barrett
Baking the World a Better Place
www.hiroki.us