slut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌt/
rhymes: -ʌt
ipa: /slʊt/
ipa: /ˈsɫɐt/
Forms: form: sluts
form: s**t
Etymology: From Middle English slutt, slutte, slute (“a dirty or slovenly person, usually a woman, scullery maid; messy animal to prepare as food; slush, mud”), probably from Old English *slȳte (“sleet”), from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet, hail”), related to Proto-West Germanic *slaut (“puddle, ditch”). Compare Dutch slodder and slet, dialectal Swedish slata (“idle woman”), Norwegian sludd (“sleet”), and the dialectal Norwegian slutr (“sleet, impure liquid”). Doublet of sleet.
Senses: examples: text: dirty slut
text: total slut
text: Some cry out against sin even as the mother cries out against her child in her lap, when she calleth it slut and naughty girl, and then falls to hugging and kissing it.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC:
glosses: A sexually promiscuous woman.
examples: text: You could hire a slut for a few hours, if you're that desperate.
glosses: A sexually promiscuous woman.
A prostitute.
examples: text: Before he met you, he was such a whore. No, I'm sorry! Whores get paid. He was a slut.
ref: 2005, Adam & Steve:
glosses: Any sexually promiscuous person.
examples: text: a press slut
text: Dude: Since when did you become a political whore?
Phil: I prefer the term political slut, thank you very much!
ref: 2004 February 12, Bayard Russell, nonemorecomic:
glosses: Someone who seeks attention through inappropriate means or to an excessive degree.
examples: text: That guy was a job slut; he changed jobs way too often and quickly, to the point that employers will no longer hire him.
glosses: A disloyal individual; someone who does not commit to a particular thing.
examples: text: Clo. Truly, and to cast away honestie vppon a foule slut, were to put good meate into an vncleane dish. / Aud. I am not a slut, though I thanke the Goddes I am foule.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Where fires thou find’st unrak’d, and hearths unswept, / There pinch the Maids as blew as Bill-berry, / Our radiant Queene, hates Sluts, and Sluttery.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: The doat on Dowdyes, and Deformity:
E'en what they cannot praise, they will not blame,
But veil with some extenuating name:
The Sallow Skin is for the Swarthy put,
And love can make a Slattern of a Slut …
ref: 1685, John Dryden, Slyvae: or, the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies, "Lucretius: The Fourth Book. Concerning the Nature of Love,: lines 142-46
glosses: A slovenly, untidy person, usually a woman.
examples: text: Our Polly is a sad Slut! nor heeds what we have taught her.
ref: 1728, [John] Gay, The Beggar’s Opera. […], London: […] John Watts, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: To hear her rant, one would have supposed, who had not seen him, that her lank-haired, grimly partner was the prettiest youth in the county of Dublin, and that all the comely lasses in Chapelizod and the country round were sighing and setting caps at him; and Devereux, who had a vein of satire, and loved even farce, enjoyed the heroics of the fat old slut.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Mr. Dangerfield Visits the Church of Chapelizod, and Zekiel Irons Goes A-fishing”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 203:
text: You damned impudent slut, you! But it's better than snivelling; better than fetching slippers and finding spectacles, isnt it? [Rising] By George, Eliza, I said I'd make a woman of you; and I have. I like you like this.
ref: 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act V, page 190:
glosses: A bold, outspoken woman.
examples: text: ‘Bête!’ returned the angry Frenchman, bestowing a savage kick on one of the unoffending pups which was frisking about his feet. The pup yelped; the slut barked and leaped furiously at the offender, and was only kept from biting him by Sam, who could scarcely hold her back for laughing; the captain was uproarious; the offended Frenchman alone maintained a severe and dignified aspect.
ref: 1852, Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush:
text: He sent me to an old bark hut, / Inhabited by a greyhound slut, / Who put her fangs through my poor fut, / And, snarling, off she ran.
ref: 1905, Banjo Paterson, Old Bush Songs, page 42:
text: ‘Like a slut and all the dogs mounting her.’
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 17:
glosses: A female dog.
examples: text: Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others and deserves wages better.
ref: 1661–1669 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “(please specify the entry date)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:
glosses: A maidservant.
glosses: A rag soaked in a flammable substance and lit for illumination.
Derived terms: sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: anti-slut defense
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: bitchslut
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: buttslut
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: cockslut
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: cumslut
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: cuntslut
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: cyberslut
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: Facebook slut
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: fuckslut
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: manslut
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: out-slut
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: painslut
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slore
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slunt
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slutbag
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slutbitch
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slutdom
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slutfucker
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slut fucker
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: sluthole
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slut hole
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: sluthood
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slut it up
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slutlike
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slut-maker
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slutness
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slut-shame
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slut-shamey
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slut-shaming
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slut shaming
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: sluttery
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: sluttification
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: sluttify
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: sluttiness
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: sluttish
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: sluttishness
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slutty
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slutwad
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slutwalk
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slutwear
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: slutwhore
sense: sexually promiscuous woman
word: superslut
sense: other senses
word: cover-slut
sense: other senses
word: cuddleslut
sense: other senses
word: healslut
sense: other senses
word: slut-cover
sense: other senses
word: slut drop
sense: other senses
word: slut strand
sense: other senses
word: slut's wool
sense: unsorted, all vulgar
word: diaperslut
sense: unsorted, all vulgar
word: footslut
sense: unsorted, all vulgar
word: shitslut
sense: unsorted, all vulgar
word: slitch
sense: unsorted, all vulgar
word: slutface
sense: unsorted, all vulgar
word: sluthead
Related terms: slattern