slut

[sluht]

noun

1. Disparaging and Offensive.,  a person, especially a woman, who is sexually promiscuous.

2. Informal.,  a person with a seemingly insatiable but often undiscerning desire to do or have something specified: a book slut, reading five books at once.

   guilty of being a shoe slut;

   a book slut, reading five books at once.

3. Archaic.

   1. a prostitute; harlot.

   2. an immoral or dissolute woman.

   3. a dirty, slovenly woman.

slut

/ slʌt /

noun

1. derogatory,  a dirty slatternly woman

2. derogatory,  an immoral woman

3. archaic,  a female dog

Other Word Forms

• sluttish adjective
• sluttishly adverb
• sluttishness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of slut¹

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English slutte; compare dialectal slut “mud,” Norwegian (dialectal) slutr “sleet, impure liquid”

Word History and Origins

Origin of slut¹

C14: of unknown origin

Related Words

• tramp 
• whore