slut-cover
slut-cover is the alternative form of cover-slut.
Meaning of cover-slut
Noun
cover-slut (plural cover-sluts)
- 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
- 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 slut-cover
| plural | slut-covers |
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Origin of slut-cover
From slut + cover.
Questions about slut-cover
- What is slut-cover the alternative form of?
- Slut-cover is the alternative form of cover-slut.
Words near slut-cover in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: slut-cover (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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