A whoremonger is a man who consorts with prostitutes, in old use. Denounced as a whoremonger, an old whoremonger.
It is archaic and belongs to biblical translation and to seventeenth-century abuse. Sex worker is the term preferred now for the other person in the transaction, and the older words are avoided. The -monger ending means a dealer, as in fishmonger and ironmonger.
1nounwhoremongerA man who consorts with prostitutes, in old use.
“The preacher denounced drunkards, thieves and whoremongers from the pulpit.”
whoremonger is an old term.
Whore plus monger, a dealer, from Old English mangere, a trader. Fishmonger is built the same way.
From whore + monger.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA