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sluttish

/ˈslʌtɪʃ/

sluttish adjective: like a slut; sexually promiscuous.

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...
    • […] and it was dark and sluttish as all Burmese rooms are, though U Po Kyin had furnished it 'Ingaleik fashion' with a veneered sideboard and chairs […]"1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC

Synonyms of sluttish

Forms of sluttish

comparativemore sluttish
superlativemost sluttish

Origin of sluttish

From Middle English scluttish, slottesche, slottysch, sluttissche, sluttissh; equivalent to slut + -ish.

Words formed from sluttish

Questions about sluttish

What does sluttish mean?
Sluttish means like a slut; sexually promiscuous.
What part of speech is sluttish?
Sluttish is an adjective.
How do you pronounce sluttish?
Sluttish is pronounced /ˈslʌtɪʃ/.

Words near sluttish in the dictionary

  1. sluttifying
  2. sluttily
  3. sluttiness
  4. slutting
  5. slutting it up
  6. sluttish
  7. sluttishly
  8. sluttishness
  9. sluttishnesses
  10. slutts
  11. slutty

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