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sloot

/ˈsluːt/

sloot noun: a ditch.

Noun (1)

sloot (plural sloots)

  1. (South Africa) A ditch.
  2. (South Africa, archaic) An 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

Noun (2)

sloot (plural sloots)

  1. (slang) A 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

Forms of sloot

pluralsloots
alternative formsluit

Origin of sloot

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

Phrases with sloot

Questions about sloot

What does sloot mean?
Sloot means a ditch.
What part of speech is sloot?
Sloot is a noun.
How do you pronounce sloot?
Sloot is pronounced /ˈsluːt/.
What is the plural of sloot?
The plural of sloot is sloots.

Words near sloot in the dictionary

  1. sloos
  2. sloosh
  3. slooshed
  4. slooshes
  5. slooshing
  6. sloot
  7. Sloothby
  8. sloots
  9. slop
  10. slop bowl
  11. slop bowls

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