slutn.

Brit.

/slʌt/, U.S.

/slət/

Forms: late Middle English slotte, late Middle English slute, late Middle English 1600s slutt, late Middle English–1600s slutte, 1500s– slut.

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown.Words of similar form and sense exist in various Germanic languages, although their relationship with one another and with the present word is unclear. Compare e.g. early modern Dutch slodde (1574), German regional (Swabia) Schlutt , Schlutte (1590), both in the sense ‘dirty or slovenly woman,’ Old Danish slatte (also slude , slutte ; Danish slatte ) untidy woman, and perhaps also Norwegian slott , Swedish regional slåta , both in the sense ‘idler, loafer.’ It has been suggested that this word may be a development of an element slut- , slutte mud, slush, which has been adduced from Middle English place names and topographical surnames (as e.g. Sluthurst (1296; now Slathurst, Sussex), Slutlond (1474; now Sluts Cottages, Horsham, Sussex)); this element has in turn been seen as a variant (with shortening of the stem vowel) of sleet n.¹ (perhaps compare Middle Low German slōt , slȫte , slǖte ditch, muddy puddle, boɡ, Middle High German sluot mud, puddle, and further slot n.⁴, slotter v.). However, this argument presents both semantic and phonological difficulties, and the analysis of the relevant names is disputed. A connection with slattern n. has also been suggested, although that word is first attested considerably later, and is itself of uncertain origin.

I. Senses referring to a person.

1. An untidy, dirty, or slovenly woman; a woman who is habitually careless, lazy, or negligent with regard to appearance, household cleanliness, etc.; a slattern. Also rarely applied to a man. Now somewhat dated.In early use sometimes overlapping with sense 2a.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun] > woman or girl

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dawa1500

drab?1518

dawkin1565

suss?1565

mab1568

drassock1573

daggle-tail1577

drossel1581

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draggle-tail1596

soss1611

slatternc1640

slutterya1652

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dab1736

slammerkin1737

rubbacrock1746

trollop1753

dratchell1755

heap1806

dolly-mop1834

sozzle1848

tat1936

scrubber1959

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [noun] > personal untidiness > woman

slut1402

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gad1756

frow1781

streel1842

ragbag1854

1402 T. Hoccleve Lepistre Cupide (Huntington) l. 237 in Minor Poems (1970) ii. 301 The foulest slutte in al a town.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 273 Ful ferd is hit [sc. cabbage] for touching of vnclene Wymmen—and slottes y suppose hit mene.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) vii. 48 He [sc. a knight] suld be temperit..jn etyng and drinking, yat he be nocht glutoun na gormand, na slut na slutheroune, na ȝit dronkynsum.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. iii. f. 18^v I haue noted often those dames which are so curious in their attyre, to be very sluttes in their houses.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 26 Women are all day a dressing, to please other men abroad, and goe like sluts at home.

1715 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 98 Nor was she a Woman of any Beauty, but was a nasty Slut.

a1763 W. Shenstone Odes in Wks. (1765) 190 She's ugly, she's old,..And a slut, and a scold.

1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. ix. 121 Almshouses For sluts whose husbands died.

1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 249 She looked the part of a ragged, slatternly, dirty slut.

1938 W. Watson Miss Pettigrew lives for Day i. 7 Oh dear, how untidy... And yes, not clean. Whoever had charge here was..a slut.

2000 W. Self How Dead Live (2001) iii. 87 Americans always look so clean and scrubbed and presentable—is it any wonder I ended up a slut living in this dungheap?

a. Chiefly derogatory. A sexually promiscuous or lascivious woman; a female prostitute; (in earlier use also) a vulgar, impudent, or disreputable woman. In recent use also occasionally applied to a man. Recently the term has been reclaimed by some speakers and used with neutral or positive connotations (see quot. 1997).

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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > impudent person > girl or woman

viragoc1386

slut?c1425

ramp?c1450

limmerc1485

rannell1573

minx?1576

Mistress Minx1576

rampant1641

hussy1647

tittup1696

skelpie-limmer1786

madam1787

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman

queanOE

whorec1175

malkinc1275

wenchelc1300

ribalda1350

strumpeta1350

wench1362

filtha1375

parnelc1390

sinner14..

callet1415

slut?c1425

tickle-tailc1430

harlot?a1475

mignote1489

kittock?a1500

mulea1513

trulla1516

trully?1515

danta1529

miswoman1528

stewed whore1532

Tib1533

unchaghe1534

flag1535

Katy1535

jillet1541

yaud1545

housewife1546

trinkletc1550

whippet1550

Canace1551

filthy1553

Jezebel1558

kittyc1560

loonc1560

laced mutton1563

nymph1563

limmer1566

tomboy1566

Marian1567

mort1567

cockatrice1568

franion1571

blowze1573

rannell1573

rig1575

Kita1577

poplet1577

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harlotry1584

light o' lovea1586

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tub-tail1595

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minx1598

hilding1599

short-heels1599

bona-roba1600

flirt1600

Hiren1600

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baggage1603

cousin1604

fricatrice1607

rumbelow1611

amorosa1615

jaya1616

open-taila1618

succubus1622

snaphancea1625

flap1631

buttered bun1638

puffkin1639

vizard1652

fallen woman1659

tomrigg1662

cunt1663

quaedama1670

jilt1672

crack1677

grass-girl1691

sporting girl1694

sportswoman1705

mobbed hood1707

brim1736

trollop1742

trub1746

demi-rep1749

gillyflower1757

lady of easy virtue1766

mot1773

chicken1782

gammerstang1788

buer1807

scarlet woman1816

blowen1819

fie-fie1820

shickster?1834

streel1842

charver1846

trolly1854

bad girl1855

amateur1862

anonyma1862

demi-virgin1864

pickup1871

chippy1885

wish-wife1886

tart1887

tartleta1890

flossy1893

fly girl1893

demi-mondaine1894

floozy1899

slattern1899

scrub1900

demi-vierge1908

cake1909

coozie1912

muff1914

tarty1918

yes-girl1920

radge1923

bike1945

puta1948

messer1951

cooze1955

jamette1965

skeezer1986

slutbag1987

chickenhead1988

ho1988

?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 135 Demostenus his hondes ones putte In a wommans bosome japyngly, Of face faire, but of hir body a slutte; ‘Withe you to dele,’ seide he, ‘what shalle I You yeve?’ ‘Fourty pens’, kothe she.

?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 205 Com forth þou sloveyn com forth þou slutte.

?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.j Sluttes drabbes and counseyll whystelers.

1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. Bij To haunt the Tauerns late..And swap ech slut, vpon the lippes, that in the darke hee meetes.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. i. 191 A peevish drunken flurt, a waspish cholerick slut.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 375 Disputes of their Religion, in which he found the crafty Slut would involve him.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. iv. 158 I Never knew any of these forward Sluts come to good.

1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough iv. i These lords have a power of wealth indeed, yet, as I've heard say, they give it all to their sluts and their trulls.

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xliv. 438 Does that bold-faced slut..intend to take her warning, or does she not?

1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. xii. 250 My lord shall marry this extravagant slut.

1969 C. Himes Blind Man with Pistol xix. 203 She's a slut, just a chickenshit whore.

1985 L. Mitchell In Heat vii. 100 He gave me just enough to keep me constantly aroused and then he'd be off with someone else. He's a slut, you know.

1997 D. Easton & C. A. Liszt Ethical Slut i. i. 4 As proud sluts, we believe that sex and sexual love are fundamental forces for good.

2008 A. Proulx in New Yorker 9 June 81 People said that Shaina Lister..had become the high-school slut, knocked up when she was fifteen.

b. With modifier. A person regarded as willing to compromise or demean him or herself for personal gain or in pursuit of a particular goal; a person regarded as inconstant or promiscuous in a specified context or with regard to a particular thing. Cf. whore n. 4.

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1984 Brownsville (Texas) Herald 24 Oct. 2 c/4 I'm going to try to get it [sc. an album] out there. I'm becoming the TV slut; I'll do ‘Good Morning Fresno’, ‘Hello Akron’. I let People magazine photograph my bathroom, for God's sake.

1990 R. Scarce Eco-warriors iii. x. 177 Cherney raised press cultivation to an art form, earning for himself a sobriquet only an Earth First!er [sic] could love: ‘Media Slut.’

2000 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 25 July c1 I love her look—Bohemian chic, not a label slut.

2013 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 22 Feb. sw28 I am a TV slut: I will watch anything, anytime, anyplace.

3. In neutral or positive use: a woman, a girl. Also colloquial as a familiar form of address.

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the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun]

maiden-childeOE

maidenOE

maidc1275

maid-childc1275

wenchc1290

thernec1300

lassc1325

maidenkinc1330

child-womana1382

girlc1400

pucelle1439

maidkin1440

mawther1440

mop1466

woman-child?1515

bonnea1529

urchina1535

kinchin-mort1567

dandiprat1582

prill1587

sluta1592

little girl1603

maggie1603

tendril1603

squall1607

childa1616

filly1616

vriester1652

miss1668

gilpie1720

lassie1725

laddess1768

jeune fillea1777

bitch1785

girly?1786

gal1795

ladyling1807

missikin1815

colleen1828

girleen1833

snowdrop1833

pinafore1836

chica1843

fillette1847

charity-girl1848

urchiness1852

Mädchen1854

gel1857

pusill1884

backfisch1888

girly-girly1888

cliner1895

tittie1918

weeny1929

bobby-soxer1944

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [noun] > person > female

gig?c1225

gigleta1340

halok?1507

fizgiga1529

gilliea1529

flirt1562

peat1566

sluta1592

gillian flirt1593

giggle1611

filly1616

jill-flirt1627

flibbertigibbet1640

flirtigig1683

flip-flap1702

gamine1848

kitten1870

sillypop1894

frippet1908

a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. B4 We countrie sluts of merry Fresingfield, Come to buy needlesse noughts to make vs fine.

1596 P. Colse Penelopes Complaint sig. C3^v My slut (saith he) I wil requite, Sith she at home doth serue me so.

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 112 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.

1710–11 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 79 Ah! you're a wheedling slut, you be so.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxx. 207 Well did the dear Slut describe the Passion I struggled with.

1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. II. xv. 278 [Henry VIII] Nanny, thou art a sweet slut.

1884 C. G. Gordon Jrnl. 29 Sept. in Jrnls. at Kartoum (1885) 79 Why the black sluts would stone me if they thought I meditated such action.

1968 V. Murray Twelve Days of Christmas 153 Get up, my darling slut, and see if there are any sardines.

2006 L. Douglas More Confessions Hollywood Starlet 100 Hey slut! I'm in London now, getting ready to fly to San Fran. Call you when I'm stateside, 'kay?

4. A kitchen or scullery maid; a (typically female) servant of low status, a drudge. Chiefly in cook, slut, and butler and variants. Now rare.kitchen-slut: see the first element.

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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > menial servant or drudge

drivelc1225

meniala1387

druggarc1500

drudgea1513

kitchen wencha1556

coal carrier1567

droy1570

packhorse?1577

droil1579

blue coat1583

sumpter1587

mill-horse1602

subsizar1602

jackal1649

mediastine1658

slut1664

hack1699

scrub1709

Gibeonite1798

the lion's provider1808

slush1825

Slave of the Lampc1840

runabout1893

lobby-gow1906

squidge1907

dogsbody1922

legman1939

shit-kicker1950

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > maid or housemaid > kitchen-maid

kitchen maid1551

slut1664

scullery maid1673

1664 S. Pepys Diary 21 Feb. (1971) V. 55 Our little girl Su is a most admirable slut and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the other and deserves wages better.

a1700 (a1450) Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 133 The quene her toke to make a slutte, and to vile services her putt.

1769 O. Elder in Verse in Eng. from 18th-cent. Irel. (1998) iv. 345 Were I to tell of my professions, Of Cook, Slut, Butter [sic], Laundry Maid, of ricks and huswifery my trade.

1855 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy v. 68 I lived with him..for nearly six months, and acted the part of cook, slut, butler, page, footman, and valet de chambre.

1912 Cent. Mag. Jan. 455/1 She had taken into her house, as slut of all work, a helpless child from an orphanage.

1967 M. J. Molloy Visiting House i. in R. Hogan Seven Irish Plays 34 I'm my own cook, slut, and butler.

II. Senses referring to an animal or a thing.

†5. Something which is messy or difficult to deal with or manage. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult thing or person

sluta1475

nut1540

Tartar1669

bitch1699

handful1755

tickler1825

pebble1829

hard ticket1847

tough nut1862

bear1876

Roger1885

trier1893

peb1903

heller1923

pawful1925

honey1932

sod1936

toughie1945

motherfucker1948

hard-arse1966

a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 158 Crabbe is a slutt to kerve & a wrawd wight.

a. A rudimentary candle or lamp made from a piece of rag dipped in lard or fat. Also as a modifier, as in slut lamp, etc. Now historical.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > made from animal fat > made from a rag dipped in fat

slut1609

1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie x. sig. K6 This match is to be made of a linen rag, and dipt in melted brimstone, after the manner that maides make sluts.

1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 363 Writing by the light of what Irish Jenny called ‘sluts’—twisted rags, dipped in lard, and stuck in a bottle.

1886 L. M'Louth in Library Mag. Aug. (1887) 64 Sometimes..there were for additional light, lard ‘sluts’, or tallow ‘dips’.

1929 A. Ellis Life Ordinary Woman (1999) 103 Mama would fill a bowl with melted grease, then braid or twist pieces of rag, putting one end in the grease, lighting the other, and thus making a very good light. She called it a ‘slut’.

1964 J. Mebane Treasure at Home xix. 145 Of all the types of lamps used in early pioneer homes to burn fat and grease, the slut lamp is probably the earliest.

†b. The melted wax or tallow from a candle; the charred part of the wick of a candle. Obsolete.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > guttering

blearing1705

sweal1781

guttering1784

slut1861

1861 A. Gesner Pract. Treat. Coal iv. 60 The melted material overflows, and bears with it the name of ‘slut’.

a1895 E. Smith MS Coll. Warwicks. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 545/1 Take that slut out of the candle, or it will fall on your book.

7. Chiefly U.S. and Australian. A female dog; a bitch. Occasionally: a female fox, dingo, wolf, etc. Frequently with modifier denoting the type, breed, or species of animal. Also as a modifier, as in slut-dog, slut-pup, etc.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > female

bitchOE

bick1440

doggess1748

slut1811

matron1931

1811 J. Bloomfield Laws State of New-Jersey 247 For every additional dog above one the sum of five dollars, and for every slut the sum of five dollars, although said slut be the only dog kept.

1821 J. Fowler Jrnl. 13 Nov. (1898) 42 A large Slut Which belongs to the Party atacted the Bare.

1830 Amer. Turf Reg. & Sporting Mag. Dec. 185 This was a very old slut fox, apparently from her teeth.

1845 G. Law in Youatt's Dog (1858) iii. 88 The dog-pup..and the slut-pup.

1894 J. Inglis Oor Ain Folk 10 Sluts were not so frequently used for shepherding purposes as dogs, being less tractable.

1900 Bulletin (Sydney) 12 May 15/1 The ordinary kangaroo dog will not kill a dingo slut.

1947 West Coast Sentinel (S. Austral.) 12 Feb. 6/3 For Sale..young blue greyhound slut, trained for spotlight.

1997 R. Antoni Blessed be Fruit ii. 251 He had a slut-dog or something, uses to got pups all the time.

Compounds

C1. As a modifier, designating clothing or footwear regarded as characteristic of a slut (in sense 2a), or regarded as sexually provocative, revealing, etc.

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1959 J. D. MacDonald Please write for Details xiv. 262 She of the two bastard children and the red slut dress.

1986 Spin Sept. 74/1 The other ingenues were 10 years younger and wearing slut boots, vinyl belts, and hot pink sleaze shirts.

2012 @Jennifergr8 20 June in twitter.com (accessed 9 Aug. 2019) Dress..classy now girls. But add 5 inch slut heels.

C2.

† slut-hole n. (also slut's-hole) Obsolete a place or receptacle for rubbish, junk, clutter, etc.; a place where dust and dirt accumulate; also figurative.Recorded earliest in a field name.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > place for disposing of refuse > hole or pit

windolf14..

slut-hole1585

dust-hole1811

shoddy-hole1845

1585 in A. D. Mills Place-names Dorset (1977) I. 32 Slutes hole.

1722 O. Dykes Royal Marriage xxvii. 321 There are no Slut's-Holes, or Sluggard's-Nests to be found in her Dwellings; but they are always kept thoroughly clean.

1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry II. iii. xii. 175 Miss Jenny..opened the closet door, and discovered to the guests such a slut's hole as made Betty colour like scarlet.

1862 Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 298 There are a good many slut-holes in London to rake out.

1890 Home-maker Apr. 57/2 ‘Slut holes,’ as our robust grandmothers called them, are the worm-holes of light housekeeping.

slut-shame v. transitive to condemn or stigmatize a person (esp. a woman) for engaging in behaviour deemed to be promiscuous or sexually provocative.

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2007 alt.support.childfree 22 Sept. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 4 Apr. 2019) ‘Home-wrecker’... Yeah. I so fucking hate moos who slut-shame other women and never once consider that men are perfectly capable of keeping their dicks in their pants when they want to.

2016 N. J. Sales Amer. Girls ii. 89 Why don't schools do something to stop this rape culture and sexism, instead of slut-shaming females for their bodies?

slut-shaming n. the practice or fact of condemning or stigmatizing a person (esp. a woman) for engaging in behaviour deemed to be promiscuous or sexually provocative.

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2004 alt.parenting.solutions 16 Apr. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 4 Apr. 2019) Girls who have been brainwashed with the antisexual mindless ‘slut’ shaming.

2018 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 4 Apr. (Ontario ed.) (Comment section) a13 Slut-shaming, a centuries-old misogynistic practice made exponentially more powerful by social media.

C3. Compounds with slut's.

slut's corner n. Now archaic a dirty or untidy corner in a room, esp. one left uncleaned by a sluttish person; also figurative.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun]

fenc888

longayne1340

sloven's inn?1518

slut's corner1570

sink1590

Augean stable1596

spittle1624

spital1771

expectoratory1836

mill-tail1854

stable1903

pisshole1928

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 29 Sluttes [1573 sluts] corners auoided, shal farther thy health.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxxxiii. 814 Our house shalbe swept, & we will good heed y^t no sluts corner be left.

1710 J. Swift Medit. Broom-stick 7 He sets up to be..a Remover of Grievances, rakes into every Slut's Corner of Nature [etc.].

1830 ‘M. Doyle’ Hints Small Farmers County Wexford (ed. 5) iv. 12 I must have a great deal more—..a well scrubbed dresser, level floor, dry and sanded, clean windows, well-aired bed-rooms, sweet and clean—no sluts' corners, no dirty bed-clothes.

1995 L. S. Robson Mary's Land xli. 311 Margaret pointed her willow withe at the offal behind the corn barrel. ‘We shall have no slut's corners, Anicah.’

† slut's-pennies n. Obsolete rare hard pieces which form in a loaf of bread when the dough has not been properly kneaded.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > hard pieces in loaf

slut's-pennies1750

1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 21 There is often what we call slutts-pennies among the bread, that will appear and eat like kernels.

slut's wool n. accumulated fluff or dust found on the floor, beneath furniture, etc.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dust or fluff

dustc825

mow?a1500

pelf1584

slut's wool1841

beggar's velvet1847

dowl1879

1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. 429 ‘A coat is covered with fluff when it has lain on the top of a bed’, and with ‘slut's wool’ when it has fallen underneath.

1893 Westm. Rev. Jan. 17 She would also..see that floors were scrubbed, and corners clear of ‘slut's-wool’, and spiders well kept down.

2002 Bayside Leader (Nexis) 4 Nov. 11 He looks about the room, the piles of dirty clothes forming small pyramids on the floor, clumps of slut's wool drifting underneath the furniture.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	slut
释义	slutn. Brit. /slʌt/, U.S. /slət/ Forms: late Middle English slotte, late Middle English slute, late Middle English 1600s slutt, late Middle English–1600s slutte, 1500s– slut. Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown.Words of similar form and sense exist in various Germanic languages, although their relationship with one another and with the present word is unclear. Compare e.g. early modern Dutch slodde (1574), German regional (Swabia) Schlutt , Schlutte (1590), both in the sense ‘dirty or slovenly woman,’ Old Danish slatte (also slude , slutte ; Danish slatte ) untidy woman, and perhaps also Norwegian slott , Swedish regional slåta , both in the sense ‘idler, loafer.’ It has been suggested that this word may be a development of an element slut- , slutte mud, slush, which has been adduced from Middle English place names and topographical surnames (as e.g. Sluthurst (1296; now Slathurst, Sussex), Slutlond (1474; now Sluts Cottages, Horsham, Sussex)); this element has in turn been seen as a variant (with shortening of the stem vowel) of sleet n.¹ (perhaps compare Middle Low German slōt , slȫte , slǖte ditch, muddy puddle, boɡ, Middle High German sluot mud, puddle, and further slot n.⁴, slotter v.). However, this argument presents both semantic and phonological difficulties, and the analysis of the relevant names is disputed. A connection with slattern n. has also been suggested, although that word is first attested considerably later, and is itself of uncertain origin. I. Senses referring to a person. 1. An untidy, dirty, or slovenly woman; a woman who is habitually careless, lazy, or negligent with regard to appearance, household cleanliness, etc.; a slattern. Also rarely applied to a man. Now somewhat dated.In early use sometimes overlapping with sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun] > woman or girl slut1402 dawa1500 drab?1518 dawkin1565 suss?1565 mab1568 drassock1573 daggle-tail1577 drossel1581 driggle-draggle1588 draggle-tail1596 soss1611 slatternc1640 slutterya1652 feague1664 traipse1676 drazel1678 mopsy1699 dab1736 slammerkin1737 rubbacrock1746 trollop1753 dratchell1755 heap1806 dolly-mop1834 sozzle1848 tat1936 scrubber1959 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [noun] > personal untidiness > woman slut1402 malkin1586 mawks1596 feague1664 gad1756 frow1781 streel1842 ragbag1854 1402 T. Hoccleve Lepistre Cupide (Huntington) l. 237 in Minor Poems (1970) ii. 301 The foulest slutte in al a town. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 273 Ful ferd is hit [sc. cabbage] for touching of vnclene Wymmen—and slottes y suppose hit mene. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) vii. 48 He [sc. a knight] suld be temperit..jn etyng and drinking, yat he be nocht glutoun na gormand, na slut na slutheroune, na ȝit dronkynsum. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. iii. f. 18^v I haue noted often those dames which are so curious in their attyre, to be very sluttes in their houses. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 26 Women are all day a dressing, to please other men abroad, and goe like sluts at home. 1715 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 98 Nor was she a Woman of any Beauty, but was a nasty Slut. a1763 W. Shenstone Odes in Wks. (1765) 190 She's ugly, she's old,..And a slut, and a scold. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. ix. 121 Almshouses For sluts whose husbands died. 1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 249 She looked the part of a ragged, slatternly, dirty slut. 1938 W. Watson Miss Pettigrew lives for Day i. 7 Oh dear, how untidy... And yes, not clean. Whoever had charge here was..a slut. 2000 W. Self How Dead Live (2001) iii. 87 Americans always look so clean and scrubbed and presentable—is it any wonder I ended up a slut living in this dungheap? 2. a. Chiefly derogatory. A sexually promiscuous or lascivious woman; a female prostitute; (in earlier use also) a vulgar, impudent, or disreputable woman. In recent use also occasionally applied to a man. Recently the term has been reclaimed by some speakers and used with neutral or positive connotations (see quot. 1997). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > impudent person > girl or woman viragoc1386 slut?c1425 ramp?c1450 limmerc1485 rannell1573 minx?1576 Mistress Minx1576 rampant1641 hussy1647 tittup1696 skelpie-limmer1786 madam1787 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman queanOE whorec1175 malkinc1275 wenchelc1300 ribalda1350 strumpeta1350 wench1362 filtha1375 parnelc1390 sinner14.. callet1415 slut?c1425 tickle-tailc1430 harlot?a1475 mignote1489 kittock?a1500 mulea1513 trulla1516 trully?1515 danta1529 miswoman1528 stewed whore1532 Tib1533 unchaghe1534 flag1535 Katy1535 jillet1541 yaud1545 housewife1546 trinkletc1550 whippet1550 Canace1551 filthy1553 Jezebel1558 kittyc1560 loonc1560 laced mutton1563 nymph1563 limmer1566 tomboy1566 Marian1567 mort1567 cockatrice1568 franion1571 blowze1573 rannell1573 rig1575 Kita1577 poplet1577 light-skirts1578 pucelle1578 harlotry1584 light o' lovea1586 driggle-draggle1588 wagtail1592 tub-tail1595 flirt-gill1597 minx1598 hilding1599 short-heels1599 bona-roba1600 flirt1600 Hiren1600 light-heels1602 roba1602 baggage1603 cousin1604 fricatrice1607 rumbelow1611 amorosa1615 jaya1616 open-taila1618 succubus1622 snaphancea1625 flap1631 buttered bun1638 puffkin1639 vizard1652 fallen woman1659 tomrigg1662 cunt1663 quaedama1670 jilt1672 crack1677 grass-girl1691 sporting girl1694 sportswoman1705 mobbed hood1707 brim1736 trollop1742 trub1746 demi-rep1749 gillyflower1757 lady of easy virtue1766 mot1773 chicken1782 gammerstang1788 buer1807 scarlet woman1816 blowen1819 fie-fie1820 shickster?1834 streel1842 charver1846 trolly1854 bad girl1855 amateur1862 anonyma1862 demi-virgin1864 pickup1871 chippy1885 wish-wife1886 tart1887 tartleta1890 flossy1893 fly girl1893 demi-mondaine1894 floozy1899 slattern1899 scrub1900 demi-vierge1908 cake1909 coozie1912 muff1914 tarty1918 yes-girl1920 radge1923 bike1945 puta1948 messer1951 cooze1955 jamette1965 skeezer1986 slutbag1987 chickenhead1988 ho1988 ?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 135 Demostenus his hondes ones putte In a wommans bosome japyngly, Of face faire, but of hir body a slutte; ‘Withe you to dele,’ seide he, ‘what shalle I You yeve?’ ‘Fourty pens’, kothe she. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 205 Com forth þou sloveyn com forth þou slutte. ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. C.j Sluttes drabbes and counseyll whystelers. 1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. Bij To haunt the Tauerns late..And swap ech slut, vpon the lippes, that in the darke hee meetes. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. i. 191 A peevish drunken flurt, a waspish cholerick slut. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 375 Disputes of their Religion, in which he found the crafty Slut would involve him. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. iv. 158 I Never knew any of these forward Sluts come to good. View more context for this quotation 1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough iv. i These lords have a power of wealth indeed, yet, as I've heard say, they give it all to their sluts and their trulls. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xliv. 438 Does that bold-faced slut..intend to take her warning, or does she not? 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. xii. 250 My lord shall marry this extravagant slut. 1969 C. Himes Blind Man with Pistol xix. 203 She's a slut, just a chickenshit whore. 1985 L. Mitchell In Heat vii. 100 He gave me just enough to keep me constantly aroused and then he'd be off with someone else. He's a slut, you know. 1997 D. Easton & C. A. Liszt Ethical Slut i. i. 4 As proud sluts, we believe that sex and sexual love are fundamental forces for good. 2008 A. Proulx in New Yorker 9 June 81 People said that Shaina Lister..had become the high-school slut, knocked up when she was fifteen. b. With modifier. A person regarded as willing to compromise or demean him or herself for personal gain or in pursuit of a particular goal; a person regarded as inconstant or promiscuous in a specified context or with regard to a particular thing. Cf. whore n. 4. ΚΠ 1984 Brownsville (Texas) Herald 24 Oct. 2 c/4 I'm going to try to get it [sc. an album] out there. I'm becoming the TV slut; I'll do ‘Good Morning Fresno’, ‘Hello Akron’. I let People magazine photograph my bathroom, for God's sake. 1990 R. Scarce Eco-warriors iii. x. 177 Cherney raised press cultivation to an art form, earning for himself a sobriquet only an Earth First!er [sic] could love: ‘Media Slut.’ 2000 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 25 July c1 I love her look—Bohemian chic, not a label slut. 2013 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 22 Feb. sw28 I am a TV slut: I will watch anything, anytime, anyplace. 3. In neutral or positive use: a woman, a girl. Also colloquial as a familiar form of address. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun] maiden-childeOE maidenOE maidc1275 maid-childc1275 wenchc1290 thernec1300 lassc1325 maidenkinc1330 child-womana1382 girlc1400 pucelle1439 maidkin1440 mawther1440 mop1466 woman-child?1515 bonnea1529 urchina1535 kinchin-mort1567 dandiprat1582 prill1587 sluta1592 little girl1603 maggie1603 tendril1603 squall1607 childa1616 filly1616 vriester1652 miss1668 gilpie1720 lassie1725 laddess1768 jeune fillea1777 bitch1785 girly?1786 gal1795 ladyling1807 missikin1815 colleen1828 girleen1833 snowdrop1833 pinafore1836 chica1843 fillette1847 charity-girl1848 urchiness1852 Mädchen1854 gel1857 pusill1884 backfisch1888 girly-girly1888 cliner1895 tittie1918 weeny1929 bobby-soxer1944 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [noun] > person > female gig?c1225 gigleta1340 halok?1507 fizgiga1529 gilliea1529 flirt1562 peat1566 sluta1592 gillian flirt1593 giggle1611 filly1616 jill-flirt1627 flibbertigibbet1640 flirtigig1683 flip-flap1702 gamine1848 kitten1870 sillypop1894 frippet1908 a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. B4 We countrie sluts of merry Fresingfield, Come to buy needlesse noughts to make vs fine. 1596 P. Colse Penelopes Complaint sig. C3^v My slut (saith he) I wil requite, Sith she at home doth serue me so. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 112 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. View more context for this quotation 1710–11 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 79 Ah! you're a wheedling slut, you be so. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxx. 207 Well did the dear Slut describe the Passion I struggled with. 1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. II. xv. 278 [Henry VIII] Nanny, thou art a sweet slut. 1884 C. G. Gordon Jrnl. 29 Sept. in Jrnls. at Kartoum (1885) 79 Why the black sluts would stone me if they thought I meditated such action. 1968 V. Murray Twelve Days of Christmas 153 Get up, my darling slut, and see if there are any sardines. 2006 L. Douglas More Confessions Hollywood Starlet 100 Hey slut! I'm in London now, getting ready to fly to San Fran. Call you when I'm stateside, 'kay? 4. A kitchen or scullery maid; a (typically female) servant of low status, a drudge. Chiefly in cook, slut, and butler and variants. Now rare.kitchen-slut: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > menial servant or drudge drivelc1225 meniala1387 druggarc1500 drudgea1513 kitchen wencha1556 coal carrier1567 droy1570 packhorse?1577 droil1579 blue coat1583 sumpter1587 mill-horse1602 subsizar1602 jackal1649 mediastine1658 slut1664 hack1699 scrub1709 Gibeonite1798 the lion's provider1808 slush1825 Slave of the Lampc1840 runabout1893 lobby-gow1906 squidge1907 dogsbody1922 legman1939 shit-kicker1950 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > maid or housemaid > kitchen-maid kitchen maid1551 slut1664 scullery maid1673 1664 S. Pepys Diary 21 Feb. (1971) V. 55 Our little girl Su is a most admirable slut and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the other and deserves wages better. a1700 (a1450) Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 133 The quene her toke to make a slutte, and to vile services her putt. 1769 O. Elder in Verse in Eng. from 18th-cent. Irel. (1998) iv. 345 Were I to tell of my professions, Of Cook, Slut, Butter [sic], Laundry Maid, of ricks and huswifery my trade. 1855 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy v. 68 I lived with him..for nearly six months, and acted the part of cook, slut, butler, page, footman, and valet de chambre. 1912 Cent. Mag. Jan. 455/1 She had taken into her house, as slut of all work, a helpless child from an orphanage. 1967 M. J. Molloy Visiting House i. in R. Hogan Seven Irish Plays 34 I'm my own cook, slut, and butler. II. Senses referring to an animal or a thing. †5. Something which is messy or difficult to deal with or manage. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > that which is difficult > a difficult thing or person sluta1475 nut1540 Tartar1669 bitch1699 handful1755 tickler1825 pebble1829 hard ticket1847 tough nut1862 bear1876 Roger1885 trier1893 peb1903 heller1923 pawful1925 honey1932 sod1936 toughie1945 motherfucker1948 hard-arse1966 a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 158 Crabbe is a slutt to kerve & a wrawd wight. 6. a. A rudimentary candle or lamp made from a piece of rag dipped in lard or fat. Also as a modifier, as in slut lamp, etc. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > made from animal fat > made from a rag dipped in fat slut1609 1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie x. sig. K6 This match is to be made of a linen rag, and dipt in melted brimstone, after the manner that maides make sluts. 1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 363 Writing by the light of what Irish Jenny called ‘sluts’—twisted rags, dipped in lard, and stuck in a bottle. 1886 L. M'Louth in Library Mag. Aug. (1887) 64 Sometimes..there were for additional light, lard ‘sluts’, or tallow ‘dips’. 1929 A. Ellis Life Ordinary Woman (1999) 103 Mama would fill a bowl with melted grease, then braid or twist pieces of rag, putting one end in the grease, lighting the other, and thus making a very good light. She called it a ‘slut’. 1964 J. Mebane Treasure at Home xix. 145 Of all the types of lamps used in early pioneer homes to burn fat and grease, the slut lamp is probably the earliest. †b. The melted wax or tallow from a candle; the charred part of the wick of a candle. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > guttering blearing1705 sweal1781 guttering1784 slut1861 1861 A. Gesner Pract. Treat. Coal iv. 60 The melted material overflows, and bears with it the name of ‘slut’. a1895 E. Smith MS Coll. Warwicks. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 545/1 Take that slut out of the candle, or it will fall on your book. 7. Chiefly U.S. and Australian. A female dog; a bitch. Occasionally: a female fox, dingo, wolf, etc. Frequently with modifier denoting the type, breed, or species of animal. Also as a modifier, as in slut-dog, slut-pup, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > female bitchOE bick1440 doggess1748 slut1811 matron1931 1811 J. Bloomfield Laws State of New-Jersey 247 For every additional dog above one the sum of five dollars, and for every slut the sum of five dollars, although said slut be the only dog kept. 1821 J. Fowler Jrnl. 13 Nov. (1898) 42 A large Slut Which belongs to the Party atacted the Bare. 1830 Amer. Turf Reg. & Sporting Mag. Dec. 185 This was a very old slut fox, apparently from her teeth. 1845 G. Law in Youatt's Dog (1858) iii. 88 The dog-pup..and the slut-pup. 1894 J. Inglis Oor Ain Folk 10 Sluts were not so frequently used for shepherding purposes as dogs, being less tractable. 1900 Bulletin (Sydney) 12 May 15/1 The ordinary kangaroo dog will not kill a dingo slut. 1947 West Coast Sentinel (S. Austral.) 12 Feb. 6/3 For Sale..young blue greyhound slut, trained for spotlight. 1997 R. Antoni Blessed be Fruit ii. 251 He had a slut-dog or something, uses to got pups all the time. Compounds C1. As a modifier, designating clothing or footwear regarded as characteristic of a slut (in sense 2a), or regarded as sexually provocative, revealing, etc. ΚΠ 1959 J. D. MacDonald Please write for Details xiv. 262 She of the two bastard children and the red slut dress. 1986 Spin Sept. 74/1 The other ingenues were 10 years younger and wearing slut boots, vinyl belts, and hot pink sleaze shirts. 2012 @Jennifergr8 20 June in twitter.com (accessed 9 Aug. 2019) Dress..classy now girls. But add 5 inch slut heels. C2. † slut-hole n. (also slut's-hole) Obsolete a place or receptacle for rubbish, junk, clutter, etc.; a place where dust and dirt accumulate; also figurative.Recorded earliest in a field name. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > place for disposing of refuse > hole or pit windolf14.. slut-hole1585 dust-hole1811 shoddy-hole1845 1585 in A. D. Mills Place-names Dorset (1977) I. 32 Slutes hole. 1722 O. Dykes Royal Marriage xxvii. 321 There are no Slut's-Holes, or Sluggard's-Nests to be found in her Dwellings; but they are always kept thoroughly clean. 1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry II. iii. xii. 175 Miss Jenny..opened the closet door, and discovered to the guests such a slut's hole as made Betty colour like scarlet. 1862 Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 298 There are a good many slut-holes in London to rake out. 1890 Home-maker Apr. 57/2 ‘Slut holes,’ as our robust grandmothers called them, are the worm-holes of light housekeeping. slut-shame v. transitive to condemn or stigmatize a person (esp. a woman) for engaging in behaviour deemed to be promiscuous or sexually provocative. ΚΠ 2007 alt.support.childfree 22 Sept. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 4 Apr. 2019) ‘Home-wrecker’... Yeah. I so fucking hate moos who slut-shame other women and never once consider that men are perfectly capable of keeping their dicks in their pants when they want to. 2016 N. J. Sales Amer. Girls ii. 89 Why don't schools do something to stop this rape culture and sexism, instead of slut-shaming females for their bodies? slut-shaming n. the practice or fact of condemning or stigmatizing a person (esp. a woman) for engaging in behaviour deemed to be promiscuous or sexually provocative. ΚΠ 2004 alt.parenting.solutions 16 Apr. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 4 Apr. 2019) Girls who have been brainwashed with the antisexual mindless ‘slut’ shaming. 2018 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 4 Apr. (Ontario ed.) (Comment section) a13 Slut-shaming, a centuries-old misogynistic practice made exponentially more powerful by social media. C3. Compounds with slut's. slut's corner n. Now archaic a dirty or untidy corner in a room, esp. one left uncleaned by a sluttish person; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty place > [noun] fenc888 longayne1340 sloven's inn?1518 slut's corner1570 sink1590 Augean stable1596 spittle1624 spital1771 expectoratory1836 mill-tail1854 stable1903 pisshole1928 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 29 Sluttes [1573 sluts] corners auoided, shal farther thy health. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxxxiii. 814 Our house shalbe swept, & we will good heed y^t no sluts corner be left. 1710 J. Swift Medit. Broom-stick 7 He sets up to be..a Remover of Grievances, rakes into every Slut's Corner of Nature [etc.]. 1830 ‘M. Doyle’ Hints Small Farmers County Wexford (ed. 5) iv. 12 I must have a great deal more—..a well scrubbed dresser, level floor, dry and sanded, clean windows, well-aired bed-rooms, sweet and clean—no sluts' corners, no dirty bed-clothes. 1995 L. S. Robson Mary's Land xli. 311 Margaret pointed her willow withe at the offal behind the corn barrel. ‘We shall have no slut's corners, Anicah.’ † slut's-pennies n. Obsolete rare hard pieces which form in a loaf of bread when the dough has not been properly kneaded. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > hard pieces in loaf slut's-pennies1750 1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 21 There is often what we call slutts-pennies among the bread, that will appear and eat like kernels. slut's wool n. accumulated fluff or dust found on the floor, beneath furniture, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dust or fluff dustc825 mow?a1500 pelf1584 slut's wool1841 beggar's velvet1847 dowl1879 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. 429 ‘A coat is covered with fluff when it has lain on the top of a bed’, and with ‘slut's wool’ when it has fallen underneath. 1893 Westm. Rev. Jan. 17 She would also..see that floors were scrubbed, and corners clear of ‘slut's-wool’, and spiders well kept down. 2002 Bayside Leader (Nexis) 4 Nov. 11 He looks about the room, the piles of dirty clothes forming small pyramids on the floor, clumps of slut's wool drifting underneath the furniture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † slutadj. Forms: 1600s slut; also Scottish pre-1700 slute, pre-1700 slutt. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: slut n. Etymology: < slut n. Compare earlier slutly adv. Obsolete. rare. Sluttish, untidy, dirty; vulgar, disreputable. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [adjective] sluttishc1405 sluttya1425 slut?a1513 drabbish1566 drabby1612 sordid1613 slithy1622 sleathy1652 slattering1673 slatternly1677 slattern1683 trapish1703 slammerkin1742 trolloping1770 unheppen1790 trollopy1800 slatternish1833 haveless1868 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [adjective] > of persons sluttishc1405 slut?a1513 slovenly1548 slammerkin1742 flutteringc1830 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 151 Mony slute daw and slepy duddroun. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 290 The foullest slutt husies and seruandis. 1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) ii. sig. H1 An Hostesse, none more slutter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2020). slutv. Brit. /slʌt/, U.S. /slət/ Forms: 1500s 1800s– slut, 1600s slute (Scottish). Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: slut n. Etymology: < slut n. †1. transitive. To make (a person, a person's body) sluttish or unclean. Obsolete.In quot. 1599 the exact sense is unclear. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > make like dirty person [verb (transitive)] slut1599 1599 Pil to Purge Melancholie sig. B3 I thought I would..sloouen ye and sott ye and slut ye. a1618 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered 585 in Wks. (1880) II. 272 Don Tobacco's damnable Infection, Slutting the Body, slaving the Affection. 1645 Z. Boyd Holy Songs 440 Words..Which slute the body, and als slave th' affection. †2. intransitive. To act as a servant or drudge; to do hard, menial work. Also with about. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work in other specific ways or conditions dead horse1640 grub1798 subcontract1827 chare1828 slut1829 to take up one's livery1839 hat1868 to work on tribute1869 freelance1904 work1920 nine-to-five1962 job-share1978 telework1983 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [verb (intransitive)] > act as menial jackal1808 slut1829 1829 [implied in: Examiner 11 Jan. 18/1 The Professional morality..rendered it a point of pride to stop short of ‘slutting for all work’ for the attorneys. (at slutting)]. 1913 A. Lunn Harrovians ii. 37 They groise their horrid eyes off and get out of fagging in a term or two, while we poor devils have to slut about ‘on boy’ for three years. 3. intransitive. To behave in a sexually promiscuous manner. Chiefly with around.Now the usual sense. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > of woman: make herself available to turn up?1616 to put out1928 slut1946 tart1949 lay1955 1946 J. Broughton Summer Fury in M. Mayorga Best One-act Plays 1945 186 What's your game, anyhow?.. Slut around with Mexicans and brag about it! 1948 G. Greene Heart of Matter ii. iii. i. 200 Perhaps I'd have slutted with Bagster or killed myself. 2015 M. Miller Underwriting iv. 134 Some pretty sorority girl doing drugs and slutting around. 4. intransitive. To behave or dress like a slovenly person. Also with about, around. ΚΠ 1955 D. Barton Glorious Life 199 In winter she had less of the Cinderella look that slutting about in summer cottons imposed on her. 1981 E. Phillips Sunday's Child v. 85 She keeps the thermostat of the apartment turned way up, permitting her to slut around in a series of sleazy polyester robes even in the coldest weather. 1999 Express 10 June 10/2 She's happy all morning ‘slutting in bed’ as she calls it. Derivatives slutting n. ΚΠ 1829 Examiner 11 Jan. 18/1 The Professional morality..rendered it a point of pride to stop short of ‘slutting for all work’ for the attorneys. 2005 N.Y. Mag. 21 Nov. 30/1 Perhaps this time around, seventies-style swinging and slutting will actually be feasible—and fair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1402adj.?a1513v.1599
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slutn.

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† slutadj.

slutv.

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