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slut
[ sluht ]
/ slÊt /
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noun
Disparaging and Offensive. a person, especially a woman, who is sexually promiscuous.
Informal. a person with a seemingly insatiable but often undiscerning desire to do or have something specified: guilty of being a shoe slut; a book slut, reading five books at once.
Archaic.
- a prostitute; harlot.
- an immoral or dissolute woman.
- a dirty, slovenly woman.
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Origin of slut
First recorded in 1375â1425; late Middle English slutte; compare dialectal slut âmud,â Norwegian (dialectal) slutr âsleet, impure liquidâ
historical usage of slut
In the early 1400s, when slut first appeared in English, it meant roughly what one sense of slattern means today: a slovenly, untidy woman or girl. It also apparently meant âkitchen maidâ (âShe is a cheerful slut who keeps the pots scrubbed and the fires hot.â). By the end of the 15th century, the sense âa woman given to immoral or improper conductâ had come into use, but this meaning is not current today. Interestingly, slattern also developed the meaning "prostitute, harlot." Some feminists have reclaimed the word slut and use it to mean a sexually liberated woman.
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British Dictionary definitions for slut
slut
/ (slÊt) /
noun
derogatory a dirty slatternly woman
derogatory an immoral woman
archaic a female dog
Derived forms of slut
sluttish, adjectivesluttishly, adverbsluttishness, nounWord Origin for slut
C14: of unknown origin
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