sluttish

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sluttish

  • /ˈslʌtɪʃ/

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

adjective more sluttish · 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.
  2. dated Dirty or untidy; disorderly. […] an air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer.

Similar: slatternly, slutty

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"sluttish." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sluttish. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{sluttish_2026,
  title = {sluttish},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sluttish},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}