SLUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slut mean? 

• SLUT (noun)
  The noun SLUT has 2 senses:

1. a dirty untidy woman

2. a woman adulterer

  Familiarity information: SLUT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dirty untidy woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

slattern; slovenly woman; slut; trollop

Hypernyms ("slut" is a kind of...):

pig; slob; sloven; slovenly person (a coarse obnoxious person)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A woman adulterer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

adulteress; fornicatress; hussy; jade; loose woman; slut; strumpet; trollop

Hypernyms ("slut" is a kind of...):

adulterer; fornicator (someone who commits adultery or fornication)

 Context examples 

But the mother said, “No, no! you slut, you have no clothes, and cannot dance; you shall not go.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He was urging his son to marry my daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she were a slut from off the streets.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)