sloot

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/ˈsluːt//ˈsluːɪt/

noun

A ditch.

OriginAfrikaans sloot ← Dutch sloot ← Middle Dutch slote →
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Meanings

sloot1

nounsloot (plural sloots)

plural sloots · alternative sluit

  1. South AfricaA ditch.
  2. South AfricaarchaicAn irrigation channel.

    Gorton, Ixopo, continues to suffer from prolonged drought. The Ixopo has not been so low for the last fifty years. Some sluits around here have ceased running.

    1901 April 26, “The March Rains”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 4, page 101

sloot2

nounsloot (plural sloots)

plural sloots

  1. slangA slut.

    "I want to wait on the sexy time front though because I really am looking for an actual boyfriend and don't want him to think I'm a sloot [slut]."

    2013, Dan Slater, Love in the Time of Algorithms

Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*slaut
  2. Old Dutch*slōt
  3. Middle Dutchslote
  4. Dutchsloot
  5. Afrikaanssloot
  6. Englishsloot

Borrowed from Afrikaans sloot, from Dutch sloot, from Middle Dutch slote, sloot, from Old Dutch *slōt, from Proto-West Germanic *slaut.

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Cite this entry
APA

sloot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sloot

MLA

“sloot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sloot. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sloot,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sloot.

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