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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slut \Slut\ (sl[u^]t), n. [OE. slutte; cf. OD. slodde a slut, Icel. sl["o]ttr a heavy, loglike fellow, slota to droop.]
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An untidy woman; a slattern.
Sluts are good enough to make a sloven's porridge.
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A servant girl; a drudge. [Obs.]
Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others.
--Pepys. A female dog; a bitch.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "a dirty, slovenly, or untidy woman," according to OED "Of doubtful origin," but probably cognate with dialectal German Schlutt "slovenly woman," dialectal Swedish slata "idle woman, slut," and Dutch slodde "slut," slodder "a careless man," but the exact relationship of all these is obscure. Chaucer uses sluttish (late 14c.) in reference to the appearance of an untidy man. Also "a kitchen maid, a drudge" (mid-15c.; hard pieces in a bread loaf from imperfect kneading were called slut's pennies, 18c.).\n
\nSpecific modern sense of "woman who enjoys sex in a degree considered shamefully excessive" is by 1966. Meaning "woman of loose character, bold hussy" is attested from mid-15c., but the primary association through 18c. was untidiness. Johnson has it (second definition) as "A word of slight contempt to a woman" but sexual activity does not seem to figure into his examples. Playful use of the word, without implication of messiness or loose morals, is attested by 1660s:\n\nMy wife called up the people to washing by four o'clock in the morning; and our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others, and deserves wages better.
[Pepys, diary, Feb. 21, 1664]
\nCompare playful use of scamp, etc., for boys. Sometimes used 19c. as a euphemism for bitch to describe a female dog.\n\nThere is a group of North Sea Germanic words in sl- that mean "sloppy," and also "slovenly woman" and, less often, "slovenly man," and that tend to evolve toward "woman of loose morals." Compare slattern, also English dialectal slummock "a dirty, untidy, or slovenly person" (1861), variant of slammacks "slatternly woman," said to be from slam "ill-shaped, shambling fellow." Also slammakin (from 1756 as a type of loose gown; 1785 as "slovenly female," 1727 as a character name in Gay's "Beggar's Opera"), with variants slamkin, slammerkin. Also possibly related are Middle Dutch slore "a sluttish woman," Dutch slomp, German schlampe "a slattern."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable often derogatory English) A sexually promiscuous woman or girl. 2 # (context countable English) By extension, a prostitute. 3 (context countable derogatory English) A man with the above qualities, often a gay man. 4 (context countable archaic derogatory English) A slovenly, untidy person, usually a woman. 5 (context countable obsolete derogatory English) A bold, outspoken woman. 6 (context countable obsolete English) A female dog. 7 (context countable obsolete English) A maid. 8 (context countable obsolete English) A rag soaked in a flammable substance and lit for illumination. vb. To wear slutty clothing or makeup, or otherwise behave in a slutty manner.
WordNet
n. a dirty untidy woman [syn: slattern, slovenly woman, trollop]
a woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, strumpet, trollop]
Wikipedia
Slut is a term for a woman or girl who is considered to have loose sexual morals or who is sexually promiscuous. It is generally used as an insult, sexual slur or offensive term of disparagement ( slut shaming). It originally meant "a dirty, slovenly woman", and is rarely used to refer to men, generally requiring clarification by use of the terms male slut or man whore.
The first recorded use of the word was in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. He says, "Why is thy lord so sluttish, I thee pray, And is of power better clothes to bey." He is referring to the man's untidy appearance. The word has also been used to refer to dust bunnies, which were called "slut bunnies". There have been attempts to reclaim the word for girls and women, and some individuals embrace the title as a source of pride.
Slut is a German indie rock band from Ingolstadt, Bavaria. The band's lyrics are written and sung in English.
Slut is the first and only EP by Flesh Volcano, released in 1987 by Some Bizzare Records.
Slut is a pejorative term for a person who is deemed sexually promiscuous.
Slut or SLUT may also refer to:
- Slut (band), a German indie rock band
- Slut (EP), an EP by Flesh Volcano
- South Lake Union Trolley, a streetcar line in Seattle
- "Slut", a song by Todd Rundgren from the album Something/Anything?
- Slut, Munsö, a village in Ekerö Municipality, Sweden
Usage examples of "slut".
If you ask me, said Margery into her glass of grog- for whom else had she to talk to, with Jin, the slut, for ever creeping out to the backyard for a word or something more with James, and Poll with her slavering mouth and her doll, little more than an idiot, and Esther walking on air because she was in love?
However, what she withheld from the infant, she bestowed with the utmost profuseness on the poor unknown mother, whom she called an impudent slut, a wanton hussy, an audacious harlot, a wicked jade, a vile strumpet, with every other appellation with which the tongue of virtue never fails to lash those who bring a disgrace on the sex.
He was getting his hands on that slut that worked the New Stanley, we figured it was that Afrikaner she said was her husband.
And, with all due respect, Mademoiselle Alphonsine is not a slut, just the contrary, and she came here not to see you but to pay a visit to my wife, with whom she is acquainted.
He sat there under his belly, a thirty-dollar-a-week moron of a fat Babbitt bastard with a hanging gut and a girl at his side, a slut, a bitch, a whore beside him, a scummy female.
This good, omniscient understanding told him also that he was again confronting a mystery whose proper interpretation was important for his life, that this slut or demimondaine, this scent of elegance, seduction, and sex, was by no means repugnant and insulting to him.
Then April Elgar entered, followed by Toplady, and she looked at the men as if they were all fags, and at the others, which they were, frowsty frumpish sluts.
In a room lit by a candle stuck in a bottleneck a slut combs out the tatts from the hair of a scrofulous child.
The little slut told me she was a Venetian, and this putting me at my ease I told her that the authorities would never suspect her of doing such a thing as she was too young.
Lesley herself had no record with the police, but a priggish, psychopathic murderer might have labelled her and all barmaids as sluts, if not prostitutes.
And then we can all stop fucking around like gaudy sluts with their tits caught in a mangle.
There are a few gaudies and scabby sluts who pox you just by breathing on you.
The sluts leaning over the balconies displaying their wares to potential customers.
If you ask me, you snotty-nosed Mu Family girls are much worse sluts than the whores in Vernal Delights ever were!
If such forward sluts were sent to Bridewell, it would be better for them.