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sluit

sluit is the alternative spelling of sloot.

Meaning of sloot

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 sluit

pluralsluits

Questions about sluit

What is sluit the alternative spelling of?
Sluit is the alternative spelling of sloot.

Words near sluit in the dictionary

  1. sluicingly
  2. sluicings
  3. sluicy
  4. sluing
  5. Sluis
  6. sluit
  7. sluits
  8. slum
  9. slum cannon
  10. slum dweller
  11. slum dwellers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sluit (page history and authors); sloot (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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