As with many things in austria, it totally depends how you say it. Written, it means "human", "good person" in general.

Only if you say it in a bad context, with slang, it means sth bad. (but not really whore... more like crazy person) "de oide is so a ménsch!" vs "er ist wirklich ein guter mensch."

I'm from austria and I've never heard "mensch" used in a negative context.

As a native german speaker I absolutely read it as positively as it was intended.

I'm chalking it up to the fact that Wienerisch can make anything sound dirty. ;)

Um, sure that's not somebody pulling somebody's leg? The slogan for DM is "Hier bin ich Mensch" and I'm pretty sure they don't mean "whore."

If it also means "human" and "wow!" I can't see how I can go wrong.

FTR, I asked my husband, who is Wiener.

With the right intonation & context it could also mean "stupid woman/girl" but not whore.

I think that was probably what my friend meant, "whore" was dict.cc's idea.