sluttish
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English scluttish, slottesche, slottysch, sluttissche, sluttissh; equivalent to slut + -ish.
Adjective[edit]
sluttish (comparative more sluttish, superlative most sluttish)
- (vulgar) Like a slut; sexually promiscuous.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 2:
- 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.
- (chiefly dated) Dirty or untidy; disorderly.
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
- […] an air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer.
- 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →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 […] "
- 1996 February 7, Helen Fielding, “Bridget Jones's Diary”, in The Independent[1], London, retrieved 3 March 2009:
- "Check plates and cutlery for tell-tale signs of sluttish washing up […] "