sluttish

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Etymology

From Middle English scluttish, slottesche, slottysch, sluttissche, sluttissh; equivalent to slut +‎ -ish.

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sluttish (comparative more sluttish, superlative most sluttish)

  1. (vulgar) Like a slut; sexually promiscuous.
    • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 2:
      His name was perhaps the least likely ever to have been young: it evoked for me the sunless complexion, unaired suiting, steel-rimmed glasses of a ledger clerk in a vanished age. Or had done so, before I found my beautiful, cocky, sluttish Arthur—an Arthur it was impossible to imagine old.
  2. (chiefly dated) Dirty or untidy; disorderly.

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