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coverslut

coverslut is the alternative spelling of cover-slut.

Meaning of cover-slut

Noun

cover-slut (plural cover-sluts)

  1. (obsolete) An apron or pinafore, worn to hide slovenliness (such as dirt, stains, or tears) in the clothing beneath.
    • Nor let your women there appear / With dirty ſmock-ſleeves, foul head-geare, / With Cover-ſlut from Neck to Toe, / As Maids to morning Lectures go.1678, John Phillips, “Book V”, in Maronides, or, Virgil Travesty, page 15
  2. (broadly, figuratively, obsolete) Any surface appearance hiding something underneath.
    • Fie, madam, you'll ruin the sex! Husband, say ye? A mere thing—a cover-slut of custom!1690, John Wilson, Belphegor, act 2, scene 3; republished in The Dramatic Works of John Wilson, Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1874, page 320

Forms of coverslut

pluralcoversluts

Questions about coverslut

What is coverslut the alternative spelling of?
Coverslut is the alternative spelling of cover-slut.

Words near coverslut in the dictionary

  1. coverslides
  2. coverslip
  3. coverslipped
  4. coverslipping
  5. coverslips
  6. coverslut
  7. coversluts
  8. coverstock
  9. coverstocks
  10. coverstrip
  11. coverstrips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coverslut (page history and authors); cover-slut (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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