Meanings
plural slutteries
- uncountableThe qualities or practices of a slut (promiscuous person); sluttishness; sexual promiscuity.
- uncountableThe qualities or practices of a slut (slovenly person), such as untidiness and dirtiness.
Others are sent To make the maids their sluttery rue, By pinching them both black and blue.
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: H.G. Bohn, page 2992 more examples
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.
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)Home to dinner, and there I took occasion, from the blacknesse of the meat as it came out of the pot, to fall out with my wife and my maid for their sluttery […]
1665 November 16 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “November 7th, 1665”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Translations
German Schlampigkeit, Hurerei
- Schlampigkeita slutty act
- Hurereisluttishness, whoredom
- Schweinereiuntidiness
- Hurereiuntidiness
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