slut
Americannoun
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Disparaging and Offensive. a person, especially a woman, who is sexually promiscuous.
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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.
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Archaic.
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a prostitute; harlot.
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an immoral or dissolute woman.
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a dirty, slovenly woman.
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noun
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derogatory a dirty slatternly woman
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derogatory an immoral woman
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archaic a female dog
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of slut
First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English slutte; compare dialectal slut “mud,” Norwegian (dialectal) slutr “sleet, impure liquid”
Explanation
A slut is a vulgar insult hurled at woman and it implies that she sleeps around or has sex with too many people. It is not cool to call any woman a slut. This is a sexist word that should be used with caution or not used at all. Calling women sluts is a way of shaming them about their sex lives, and that's really no one else's business. Unfortunately, there are a lot similar words to slut, such as adulteress, hussy, whore, loose woman, strumpet, and trollop. The word is sometimes used for men, as in man-slut, which may be a sign that our ideas of sluttiness are changing.
Example Sentences
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In 2009, Anthony Bourdain coined the term "egg slut" as a descriptor for a chef who simply adds an egg to everything to make it better.
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2022
Among them was salon owner Anita Donoghue whose Facebook post about binning "pages of fat shaming, slut shaming, celebs without make-up" was shared thousands of times.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2020
But Parker's views and approach has made him the villain of the season, with many viewers accusing him of "toxic masculinity," "gaslighting" and "slut shaming" Brown.
From Fox News • Jun. 25, 2019
For example, during a particularly cruel egg tossing game, Candy fights back by throwing eggs at the male suitors, and refuses to slut shame her fellow contestants.
From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2018
My traumatic experiences with bad skin happened before terms like "fat shaming" and "slut shaming" were invented, but even today, no one seems to mention that skin shaming also exists.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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