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slut-cover

slut-cover is the alternative form 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 slut-cover

pluralslut-covers

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

  1. slut strand
  2. slut strands
  3. slut's wool
  4. slut-bag
  5. slut-bags
  6. slut-cover
  7. slut-covers
  8. slut-maker
  9. slut-makers
  10. slut-shame
  11. slut-shamed

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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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