Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A sexually promiscuous woman. · A prostitute. · Any sexually promiscuous person. · Someone who seeks attention through inappropriate means or to an excessive degree.
To wear slutty clothing or makeup, or otherwise behave in a slutty manner. · To visit places frequented by men, with the intention of engaging in sexual intercourse by means of flirting.
From Middle English slutt, slutte, slute (“a dirty or slovenly person, usually a woman, scullery maid; messy animal to prepare as food; slush, mud”), probably from Old English *slȳte (“sleet”), from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet, hail”), related to Proto-West Germanic *slaut (“puddle, ditch”). Compare Dutch slodder and slet, dialectal Swedish slata (“idle woman”), Norwegian sludd (“sleet”), and the dialectal Norwegian slutr (“sleet, impure liquid”). Doublet of sleet.
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- Inherited-form mentionsluttenm
- Inherited-form mention*slȳteang · sleet
- Inherited-form mention*slautijāgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*slautijǭgem-pro · sleet, hail
- Cognate mention*slautgmw-pro · puddle, ditch
- Cognate mentionsloddernl
- Cognate mentionslatasv
- Cognate mentionsluddno
- Cognate mentionslutrno
- Doublet mentionsleeten
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