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slutish

slutish is the dated form of sluttish.

Meaning of sluttish

Adjective

sluttish (comparative more sluttish, superlative most sluttish)

  1. (vulgar) Like a slut; sexually promiscuous.
    • His name was perhaps the least likely ever to have been young: it evoked for me the sunless complexion, unaired suiting, steel-rimmed glasses of a ledger clerk in a vanished age. Or had done so, before I found my beautiful, cocky, sluttish Arthur—an Arthur it was impossible to imagine old.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 2
  2. (dated) Dirty or untidy; disorderly.
    • […] an air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...

Forms of slutish

comparativemore slutish
superlativemost slutish

Questions about slutish

What is slutish the dated form of?
Slutish is the dated form of sluttish.

Words near slutish in the dictionary

  1. sluthhound
  2. sluthhounds
  3. sluthole
  4. slutholes
  5. sluthood
  6. slutish
  7. slutishness
  8. slutlike
  9. slutness
  10. Slutney
  11. sluts

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