单词 | sluttery |
释义 | slutteryn. Now rare (in later use chiefly humorous). 1. a. Dirtiness, untidiness, slovenliness. Also occasionally as a count noun: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun] > condition of sluttinessc1450 sluttishness?c1475 slutnessa1500 slovenry1542 slutterya1586 slovenliness1599 Grobianism1609 slovenness1616 slatternness1745 slatternliness1796 slummockiness1877 draggle-tailedness1889 Schlamperei1917 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [noun] undaftiness1555 slutterya1586 messiness1836 unneatness1836 untidiness1845 slip-sloppery1848 unkemptness1856 mussiness1869 untrimmedness1883 streelishness1936 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Kk1v Yet let not sluttery, The sinke of filth, be counted huswifery. 1627 M. Drayton Nimphidia in Battaile Agincourt 119 These make our Girles their sluttery rue, By pinching them both blacke and blew. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 22 Dec. (1970) II. 237 I took occasion..to fall out with my wife and the maids for their sluttery. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 200 They are not to be taxed..with Sloth or Sluttery in respect of their Bodies. 1814 W. Scott Diary 10 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. iv. 175 They are a long-lived race, notwithstanding utter and inconceivable dirt and sluttery. 1818 M. Carlyle Let. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) I. v. 58 It shall be my earnest desire never to imitate the abominable slutteries of Mrs. Maclarty. 1855 Notes & Queries 26 May 397/2 They [sc. piskies] are great enemies of sluttery, and great encouragers of good husbandry. 1927 V. Gowen Sun & Moon ii. 17 Most of the slave girls were coarse drudges, soon polluted by the sluttery of their living quarters. 2014 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) (Nexis) 22 Feb. g4 He's never quite got over the shock of my domestic sluttery. This, after all, is a man who shelves books in thematic order and chases down germs with bleach. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] gorec725 horeeOE filthOE foulnessOE dirta1300 gallc1400 ordurec1400 foulinga1425 harlotry1439 muck1440 noisance1473 horeness1495 vileness1495 naughtiness1533 vility1540 bawdiness1552 vildness1597 snottery1598 soilage1598 sordidity1600 soil?1605 sluttery1607 nastiness1611 bawdry1648 sords1653 crott1657 feculence1662 nast1789 clart1808 schmutz1838 crap1925 grunge1965 gunge1969 grot1971 spooge1987 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > [noun] uncleannesseOE unpurenessa1425 uncleanliness1509 impurity1548 impureness1557 immundicity1559 sluttery1607 uncleansedness1622 immundity1870 1607 J. Davies Summa Totalis sig. F4v We can but immure, Those Sp'rituall Guifts with Fleshes sluttery. 1649 H. Hammond Christians Obligations ix. 237 All the debaucheries in the world could no more vitiate them, then the..gold by the sluttery it may be mixt with. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) ii. xiv. 158 How..any man should be so sullied with the sluttery of uncleanness, as that he dare publish those obscenities. 1905 tr. P. J. de Smet Let. in Life, Lett., Trav. Father P.-J. de Smet III. vi. vii. 924 Pumps and buckets were then brought into use, and all these slutteries deposited on the deck were thrown into the sea. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > wearisome or unrewarding drudgery1548 slavery1551 droiling1607 sluttery1615 under-drudgery1625 drudging1634 droila1644 fag1780 scrubbery1783 stodge1846 buggerlugging1878 1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 266 She is a receiver to all professions, and acquainted by experience with cookery or sluttery. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil conduct > [noun] unkindheadc1325 unkindnessc1390 disnaturalness1430 unnaturalness1534 unnaturality1548 sluttery1648 malversation1752 doggery1844 Schweinerei1896 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness > conduct slavery1553 smaikry1573 cullionry1611 basery1614 sluttery1648 blackguardism1777 raffery1819 blackguardry1820 doggery1844 Schweinerei1896 1648 Verses in Honour of Iudge Ienkin 2 These savage Bores..cast out of Dores, Law, and Religion, Mercy, Discipline, Sence, and Civillity, and what e're's Divine Or decent, and in lieu of them, did bring Geneva's Sluttery. a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (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. 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 a1652 R. Brome City Wit iv. ii. sig. E6v, in Five New Playes (1653) You hurden smock'd sweaty sluttery, that couldst love a fellow that wore worsted stockins footed, and fed in Cooks shops. 5. A room for informal use, esp. one which is untidy.In later quots. with allusion to Swift (see quot. 1711). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > workshop > [noun] > workroom workroom1665 sluttery1711 working room1898 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > others hell1310 summer hall1388 summer parloura1425 paradise1485 fire room1591 garden room1619 ease-room1629 portcullis1631 divan1678 but?1700 sluttery1711 rotunda1737 glass casea1777 dungeon1782 hall of mirrors1789 balcony-chamber1800 showroom1820 mirror room1858 vomitorium1923 mosquito room1925 refuge room1937 quiet room1938 Florida room1968 roomset1980 wet room1982 1711 J. Swift Corr. 26 Aug. (1963) I. 276 Adieu till we meet over a Pott of Coffee, or an Orange and Sugar in the Sluttery, which I have so often found to be the most agreeable Chamber in the World. 1841 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 8 150 There is a little store-room next door to the study—I may have that for my sluttery, I dare say... With a little paint and paper, which I can put up myself, it will be so snug. 1937 E. Sitwell I live under Black Sun (1953) ii. v. 250 The sulkiness to which her young sister Molkins was accustomed, and which was reserved for the Sluttery (as Mr. Hare called the sitting-room on the ‘Nursery’ floor)—for it must never be allowed to show downstairs—this had been thrown away altogether. 6. Sexually provocative or promiscuous behaviour, esp. in a woman. ΚΠ 1959 Daily Mail 23 Jan. 3/6 The bedroom interludes, however, are so sketchily written that if Tony Wright's murderer and Diane Clare's moll achieve only a superficial thuggery and sluttery, it is more the author's fault than their own. 1998 D. Coupland Girlfriend in Coma ii. 14 I wasn't about to take advantage of the opportunity and emulate his life of sluttery. 2005 M. Atwood Penelopiad xx. 145 Others have noted the fact that I did not dismiss or punish the twelve impudent maids,..so I must have been indulging in the same kind of sluttery myself. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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