slut

American  

[sluht] / slʌt /

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.

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slut British  

/ slʌt /

noun

1. derogatory a dirty slatternly woman

2. derogatory an immoral woman

3. archaic a female dog

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Other Word Forms

• sluttish adjective
• sluttishly adverb
• sluttishness noun

Etymology

Origin of slut

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

Related Words

• tramp
• whore