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sluttery Now rare.|ˈslʌtərɪ|
[f. slut n.]
1. Sluttishness, filthiness, dirtiness, untidiness.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1590) 389 Yet let not sluttery, The sinke of filth, be counted huswifery. 1594Mirr. Policy (1599) 153 Cleannesse..is the thing that bringeth her into most estimation: as contrariwise slutterie and filthinesse breeds her most hatred. 1627Drayton Nimphidia ix, These make our Girles their sluttery rue, By pinching them both blacke and blue. 1661Pepys Diary 22 Dec., I took occasion..to fall out with my wife and my mayde for their sluttery. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 200 They are not to be taxed..with Sloth or Sluttery in respect of their Bodies. 1814Scott Diary in Lockhart (1839) IV. 235 They are a long lived race, notwithstanding utter and inconceivable dirt and sluttery. 1818Mary Carlyle in Froude Life C. (1882) I. v. 58 It shall be my earnest desire never to imitate the abominable slutteries of Mrs. Maclarty.
†b. concr. Dirt, filth, impurity. Obs.
1607J. Davies Summa Totalis F 4*, We can but immure Those Sp'rituall Guifts with Fleshes sluttery. 1644Hammond Serm. ix. Wks. 1684 IV. 530 All the debaucheries in the world could no more vitiate them, than the..gold by the sluttery it may be mixt with. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. ii. xiv. (1674) 158 How..any man should be so sullied with the sluttery of uncleanness, as that he dare publish those obscenities.
†c. A slut. Obs.—1
a1652Brome City Wit iv. ii, You hurden smock'd sweaty sluttery, that couldst love a fellow that wore worsted stockins footed, and fed in Cooks shops.
†2. Work appropriate to a slut; drudgery. Obs.—1
1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 266 She is a receiver to all professions, and acquainted by experience with cookery or sluttery.
†3. Vile or criminal conduct. Obs.—1
a1656Ussher Ann. (1658) 357 She..poisoned him,..and to cover this sluttery of hers, she caused one Artemon, who was very like him, to lie in his bed.
4. An untidy room; a work-room.
1841Tait's Mag. VIII. 150 There is a little store-room..—I may have that for my sluttery, I dare say. |