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Slut definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SLUT, n.
1. A woman who is negligent of cleanliness, and who suffers her person, clothes, funiture, etc., to be dirty or in disorder.
2. A name of slight contempt for a woman.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a dirty untidy woman [syn: slattern, slut, slovenly woman, trollop]
2: a woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English slutte Date: 15th century 1. chiefly British a slovenly woman 2. a. a promiscuous woman; especially prostitute b. a saucy girl ; minx • sluttish adjective • sluttishly adverb • sluttishness noun • slutty adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. derog. a slovenly woman; a slattern; a hussy. Derivatives: sluttish adj. sluttishness n. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Slut Slut, n. [OE. slutte; cf. OD. slodde a slut, Icel. sl["o]ttr a heavy, loglike fellow, slota to droop.] 1. An untidy woman; a slattern. Sluts are good enough to make a sloven's porridge. --Old Proverb. 2. A servant girl; a drudge. [Obs.] Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightly, doing more service than both the others. --Pepys. 3. A female dog; a bitch.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sluts) People sometimes refer to a woman as a slut when they consider her to be very immoral in her sexual behaviour. (OFFENSIVE) N-COUNT [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Slattern, drab, draggletail.

Moby Thesaurus

Jezebel, Partlet, bad woman, baggage, bandog, biddy, bitch, bossy, bowwow, broad, brood mare, bungler, canine, chippy, clitoromaniac, cocotte, cow, disregarder, dodger, doe, dog, dowdy, drab, easy lay, easy woman, ewe, ewe lamb, fancy dog, filly, floozy, frail sister, frump, goldbrick, goof-off, grisette, guide dog, guinea hen, gyp, harridan, heifer, hen, hind, hog, hussy, hysteromaniac, idler, ignorer, jade, jenny, jezebel, kennel, lap dog, lioness, litterbug, loose woman, malapert, malingerer, mare, nanny, nanny goat, neglecter, negligent, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, pack of dogs, peahen, pickup, pig, pooch, procrastinator, pup, puppy, quean, roe, saucebox, schlep, schlump, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, sheep dog, shirker, show dog, slacker, slattern, sled dog, slob, sloppy Joe, sloven, snip, sow, strumpet, swine, tart, tigress, toy dog, traipse, tramp, trifler, trollop, trull, uteromaniac, vixen, waiter on Providence, wanton, watchdog, wench, whelp, whore, working dog