slut
[ sluht ]
/ slʌt /
noun
Disparaging and Offensive.
a sexually promiscuous woman, or a woman who behaves or dresses in an overtly sexual way.
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.
Origin of slut
1375–1425; late Middle English
slutte; compare dial.
slut mud, Norwegian (dial.)
slutr sleet, impure liquid
historical usage of slut
Slut first appeared in the written language in 1402, according to the
Oxford English Dictionary , that great repository of language information. At that time,
slut meant roughly what one sense of
slattern means today: a slovenly, untidy woman or girl. It also apparently meant “kitchen maid” (”She is a cheerful slut who keeps the pots scrubbed and the fires hot.”). By the end of the 15th century, the sense “a woman given to immoral or improper conduct” 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.
Words nearby slut
Example sentences from the Web for slut
Then suspecting that she was shut up with a gallant, he struck great blows upon the door and began to shout 'Slut!
Penguin Island |Anatole France
British Dictionary definitions for slut
slut
/ (slʌt) /
noun
derogatory
a dirty slatternly woman
derogatory
an immoral woman
archaic
a female dog
Derived forms of slut
sluttish, adjective sluttishly, adverb sluttishness, nounWord Origin for slut
C14: of unknown origin