sluttish

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈslʌtɪʃ/

Definition of sluttish

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (vulgar)Like 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.”
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adj

  1. (vulgar)Like 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.”
  2. (dated)Dirty or untidy; disorderly.
    “[…] an air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer.”
    “[…] 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 […]"”
    “"Check plates and cutlery for tell-tale signs of sluttish washing up […]"”

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Etymology

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

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