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sluttery en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Etymology tree English slut Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Latin -ia Old French -ie Old French -eriebor. Middle English -erie English -ery English sluttery From slut + -ery.

Meanings

  1. (countable) A slutty or sluttish act.
    • The tickets were valued at $80.00 and because of my slutteries, we got them free. 2006, Ryan 'Ryonie Balogna', Before I forget:
  2. (uncountable) The qualities or practices of a slut (promiscuous person); sluttishness; sexual promiscuity.
  3. (uncountable) The qualities or practices of a slut (slovenly person), such as untidiness and dirtiness.
    • Where fires thou find'st unrak'd, and hearths unswept, / There pinch the Maids as blew as Bill-berry, / Our radiant Queene, hates Sluts, and Sluttery. c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
    • Others are sent To make the maids their sluttery rue, By pinching them both black and blue. 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: H.G. Bohn, page 299:
    • Home to dinner, and there I took occasion, from the blacknesse of the meat as it came out of the pot, to fall out with my wife and my maid for their sluttery […] 1665 November 16 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “November 7th, 1665”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC:

Forms

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Relateds

sluttiness · slut · slutty · sluttishness

Translations (6)

de Hurerei (untidiness) · mk курвинство (sluttishness, whoredom) · mk курварлак (a slutty act) · de Schweinerei (untidiness) · de Schlampigkeit (a slutty act) · de Hurerei (sluttishness, whoredom)