See also: s'lut

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Etymology edit

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?)

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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[ward] 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[ward] 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[1], page 48:
      Well, dont[sic] you want to be clean and sweet and decent, like a lady? You know you cant[sic] be a nice girl inside if youre[sic] 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[2]:
      ‘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.

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sexually promiscuous woman
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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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slut

  1. masculine singular passive participle of slout

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Etymology 1 edit

From Swedish slut, from Middle Low German slūt.

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slut

  1. over
  2. finished

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slut

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

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slut (uncountable)

  1. end

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slut

  1. imperative of slutte

Middle Low German edit

Etymology edit

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.)

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slūt m or n

  1. end; conclusion

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  • Norwegian Bokmål: slutt
  • Swedish: slut

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slut n (definite singular slutet, uncountable)

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 form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by sludd

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slut n (definite singular slutet, uncountable)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of sludd

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Borrowed from Ukrainian слутий (slutyj).

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

  1. crippled
  2. ugly

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slut (Cyrillic spelling слут)

  1. masculine singular passive past participle of sluti

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From Middle Low German slūt.

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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

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slut n

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

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

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slut

  1. imperative of sluta

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

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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,

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  • Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 68