sluttish

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/ˈslʌtɪʃ/

adjective

Like a slut; sexually promiscuous.

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Meanings

adjectivesluttish (comparative more sluttish, superlative most sluttish)

comparative more sluttish · superlative most sluttish

  1. vulgarLike a slut; sexually promiscuous.

    His name was perhaps the least likely ever to have been young: it evoked for me the sunless complexion, unaired suiting, steel-rimmed glasses of a ledger clerk in a vanished age. Or had done so, before I found my beautiful, cocky, sluttish Arthur—an Arthur it was impossible to imagine old.

    1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 2
  2. datedDirty or untidy; disorderly.

    "Check plates and cutlery for tell-tale signs of sluttish washing up […]"

    1996 February 7, Helen Fielding, “Bridget Jones's Diary”, in The Independent, London, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2012
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    […] an air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer.

    1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC

    […] and it was dark and sluttish as all Burmese rooms are, though U Po Kyin had furnished it 'Ingaleik fashion' with a veneered sideboard and chairs […]"

    1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivecharacteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women

adjectivecasual and unrestrained in sexual behavior

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishscluttish
  2. Englishsluttish

From Middle English scluttish, slottesche, slottysch, sluttissche, sluttissh; equivalent to slut + -ish.

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