slut

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English

Alternative forms

• s**t (censored)

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

• IPA^(key): /slʌt/
• Rhymes: -ʌt
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /slʊt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɫɐt/

Noun

slut (plural sluts)

1. (vulgar, often derogatory) A sexually promiscuous woman.

   dirty slut

   total slut

   1. (vulgar, by extension) A prostitute.

2. (vulgar, often derogatory) Any sexually promiscuous person.
3. (figurative, vulgar, 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.

5. (archaic, derogatory) A slovenly, untidy person, usually a woman.
   • 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 …

6. (obsolete, derogatory) A bold, outspoken woman.
7. (obsolete) A female dog.
8. (obsolete) A maidservant.
9. (obsolete) A rag soaked in a flammable substance and lit for illumination.

Synonyms

• (sexually promiscuous woman): See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman.
• (prostitute): See also Thesaurus:prostitute.
• (untidy person): See also Thesaurus:untidy person.

Derived terms

Related terms

• slattern

Translations

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.
2. (slang, vulgar, usually with around) To visit places frequented by men, with the intention of engaging in sexual intercourse by means of flirting.

Synonyms

• (behave in a slutty manner): See Thesaurus:harlotize
• (visit places frequented by men): cruise, troll

See also

• bitch

Anagrams

• LUTs, UTSL, lust, ults

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈslut]

Participle

slut

1. masculine singular passive participle of slout

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slut/, [sl̥ud̥]

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

• “slut,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

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 Nynorsk: slutt; (dialectal) slút
• → Swedish: slut
  • → Danish: slut
    • Norwegian Bokmål: slutt

References

• "slūt" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)
• "sluz" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

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

• IPA^(key): /slut/

Adjective

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

1. crippled
2. ugly

Declension

Synonyms

• urât

Antonyms

• frumos

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

slut (Cyrillic spelling слут)

1. masculine singular passive past participle of sluti

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German slūt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slʉːt/
• Rhymes: -ʉːt

Adjective

slut (only as predicative, not comparable)

1. over, finished; which has come to an end

2. gone, no more; of which the last has been taken

3. exhausted; very tired

Derived terms

• ta slut
• sluta

Noun

slut n

1. end

Declension

Derived terms

• avslut
• beslut
• slutligen
• slutstation
• till slut

Descendants

• → Danish: slut
  • Norwegian Bokmål: slutt

Verb

slut

1. imperative of sluta

References

• slut in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• lust, luts

Yola

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slʊt/

Noun

slut

1. sloven

   Synonym: slouveen

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