Word: slut Part of Speech: noun 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. Pronunciation: /slʌt/, /slʊt/, /ˈsɫɐt/ 1. A sexually promiscuous woman. Labels: derogatory, often, vulgar Example: dirty slut Example: total slut 2. A sexually promiscuous woman. Labels: broadly, derogatory, often, vulgar Example: You could hire a slut for a few hours, if you're that desperate. 3. Any sexually promiscuous person. Labels: derogatory, often, vulgar Example: Before he met you, he was such a whore. No, I'm sorry! Whores get paid. He was a slut. 4. Someone who seeks attention through inappropriate means or to an excessive degree. Labels: derogatory, figuratively, often, vulgar Example: a press slut Example: Dude: Since when did you become a political whore? Phil: I prefer the term political slut, thank you very much! 5. A disloyal individual; someone who does not commit to a particular thing. Labels: derogatory, figuratively, often, vulgar Example: That guy was a job slut; he changed jobs way too often and quickly, to the point that employers will no longer hire him. 6. A slovenly, untidy person, usually a woman. Labels: archaic, derogatory Example: 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. Example: 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. 7. A bold, outspoken woman. Labels: derogatory, obsolete Example: Our Polly is a sad Slut! nor heeds what we have taught her. Example: 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. 8. A female dog. Labels: obsolete Example: ‘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. Example: 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. 9. A maidservant. Labels: obsolete Example: Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others and deserves wages better. 10. A rag soaked in a flammable substance and lit for illumination. Labels: obsolete