sluttish en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈslʌtɪʃ/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English scluttish, slottesche, slottysch, sluttissche, sluttissh; equivalent to slut + -ish.
Meanings
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(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:
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(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 Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:[…] 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:"Check plates and cutlery for tell-tale signs of sluttish washing up […]"
1996 February 7, Helen Fielding, “Bridget Jones's Diary”, in The Independent, London, retrieved 03 Mar 2009:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more sluttish | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most sluttish | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |