slut

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English slutt, slutte, slute (“a dirty or slovenly person, usually a woman, scullery maid; messy animal to prepare as food; slush, mud”), probably from Old English *slȳte (“sleet”), from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet, hail”), related to Proto-West Germanic *slaut (“puddle, ditch”). Compare Dutch slodder and slet, dialectal Swedish slata (“idle woman”), Norwegian sludd (“sleet”), and the dialectal Norwegian slutr (“sleet, impure liquid”). Doublet of sleet. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

Noun

slut (plural sluts)

  1. (vulgar, often derogatory) A sexually promiscuous woman.
    dirty slut
    total slut
    1. (vulgar, by extension) A prostitute.
      You could hire a slut for a few hours, if you're that desperate.
  2. (vulgar, often derogatory) Any sexually promiscuous person, often a gay man.
    • 2005, Adam & Steve:
      Before he met you, he was such a whore. No, I'm sorry! Whores get paid. He was a slut.
  3. (vulgar, figuratively, often derogatory) Someone who seeks attention through inappropriate means or to an excessive degree.
    a press slut
  4. (vulgar, figuratively, often derogatory) A disloyal individual; someone who does not commit to a particular thing.
    That guy was a job slut; he changed jobs way too often and quickly, to the point that employers will no longer hire him.
  5. (archaic, derogatory) A slovenly, untidy person, usually a woman.
    • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      Clo. Truly, and to cast away honestie vppon a foule slut, were to put good meate into an vncleane dish. / Aud. I am not a slut, though I thanke the Goddes I am foule.
    • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      Where fires thou find’st unrak’d, and hearths unswept, / There pinch the Maids as blew as Bill-berry, / Our radiant Queene, hates Sluts, and Sluttery.
    • 1685, John Dryden, Slyvae: or, the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies, "Lucretius: The Fourth Book. Concerning the Nature of Love,: lines 142-46:
      The doat on Dowdyes, and Deformity:
      E'en what they cannot praise, they will not blame,
      But veil with some extenuating name:
      The Sallow Skin is for the Swarthy put,
      And love can make a Slattern of a Slut …
    • 1912, George Bernard Shaw, “Act II”, in Pygmalion‎, page 48:
      Well, dont you want to be clean and sweet and decent, like a lady? You know you cant be a nice girl inside if youre a dirty slut outside.
  6. (obsolete, derogatory) A bold, outspoken woman.
    • 1728, John Gay, Begger’s Opera:
      Our Polly is a sad Slut! nor heeds what we have taught her.
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
      To hear her rant, one would have supposed, who had not seen him, that her lank-haired, grimly partner, was the prettiest youth in the county of Dublin, and that all the comely lasses in Chapelizod and the country round were sighing and setting caps at him; and Devereux, who had a vein of satire, and loved even farce, enjoyed the heroics of the fat old slut.
  7. (obsolete) A female dog.
    • 1852, Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush‎:
      ‘Bête!’ returned the angry Frenchman, bestowing a savage kick on one of the unoffending pups which was frisking about his feet. The pup yelped; the slut barked and leaped furiously at the offender, and was only kept from biting him by Sam, who could scarcely hold her back for laughing; the captain was uproarious; the offended Frenchman alone maintained a severe and dignified aspect.
    • 1905, Banjo Paterson, Old Bush Songs, page 42:
      He sent me to an old bark hut, / Inhabited by a greyhound slut, / Who put her fangs through my poor fut, / And, snarling, off she ran.
  8. (obsolete) A maidservant.
    • 1664, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys:
      Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightily, doing more service than both the others and deserves wages better.
  9. (obsolete) A rag soaked in a flammable substance and lit for illumination.

Synonyms

Derived terms

sexually promiscuous woman
other senses

Related terms

Translations

prostitute — see prostitute,‎ whore
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Verb

slut (third-person singular simple present sluts, present participle slutting, simple past and past participle slutted)

  1. (vulgar) To wear slutty clothing or makeup, or otherwise behave in a slutty manner.
    • 2009, Shauna Cross, Whip It, →ISBN:
      In an effort to avoid any spontaneous slutting out, I give myself a stern look in the mirror. "You can make out with him, but that's it," I tell my boy-crazed reflection.
  2. (slang, vulgar, usually with around) To visit places frequented by men, with the intention of engaging in sexual intercourse by means of flirting.
    • 1998, David Baldacci, The Winner:
      Shirley, you slut around here again, and I swear to God I'll break your neck.
    • 2001 January, Dan Savage, “Sluts Like Us”, in Out, volume 9, number 7, page 37:
      The radicals are reluctant to admit that slutting around is a phase that most gay men go through, but not a permanent — what's that phrase? Oh, yes — "lifestyle choice."

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Czech

Pronunciation

Participle

slut

  1. masculine singular passive participle of slout

Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Swedish slut, from Middle Low German slūt.

Adjective

slut

  1. over
  2. finished

Interjection

slut

  1. (radio communications) over and out, out (ending a conversation)

Noun

slut (uncountable)

  1. end

References

Etymology 2

Verb

slut

  1. imperative of slutte

Middle Low German

Etymology

Related to Proto-West Germanic *sleutan (“to bolt, lock”). Compare Middle High German sluz. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

slūt m or n

  1. end; conclusion

Descendants

  • → Norwegian Bokmål: slutt
  • → Swedish: slut

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

slut n (definite singular slutet, uncountable)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by sludd

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

slut n (definite singular slutet, uncountable)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of sludd

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ukrainian слутий (slutyj).

Pronunciation

Adjective

slut m or n (feminine singular slută, masculine plural sluți, feminine and neuter plural slute)

  1. crippled
  2. ugly

Declension

Declension of slut
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite slut slută sluți slute
definite slutul sluta sluții slutele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite slut slute sluți slute
definite slutului slutei sluților slutilor

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Serbo-Croatian

Participle

slut (Cyrillic spelling слут)

  1. masculine singular passive past participle of sluti

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German slūt.

Pronunciation

Adjective

slut (only as predicative, not comparable)

  1. over, finished; which has come to an end
    Deras förhållande är slut.
    Their relationship is over.
  2. gone, no more; of which the last has been taken
    Kakorna är slut.
    There are no more cookies.
  3. exhausted; very tired

Derived terms

Noun

slut n

  1. end
    Jag tyckte om slutet av boken.
    I liked the end of the book.

Declension

Declension of slut 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative slut slutet slut sluten
Genitive sluts slutets sluts slutens

Derived terms

Descendants

Verb

slut

  1. imperative of sluta

References

Anagrams

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English slutte (“sloven, slut”), of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

slut

  1. sloven
    Synonym: slouveen
    • 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 5-6:
      If ich hadh Peeougheen a Buch, Meyleare a Slut, Peedher Ghiel-laaune, an Jackeen Bugaaune,
      If I had Hugh the Buck, Meyler the Sloven, Peter the Smart Man, and John Boggan,

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68
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