Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character and practices of a slut; neglect of cleanliness and order; dirtiness of clothes, rooms, furniture, or provisions.
Wiktionary
- n. countable A slutty or sluttish act.
- n. uncountable The qualities or practices of a slut (promiscuous person), as in sluttishness, whoredom.
- n. uncountable The qualities or practices of a slut (slovenly person), as in untidiness, dirtiness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines.
Etymologies
- From slut. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Labels: domestic sluttery, harry potter, spells, witchcraft posted by Another Outspoken Female at 1: 52 PM”
“The women in my family were often suspected of this kind of sluttery, but the glorious truth is that they mostly just loved to marry sadists.”
“It's a rambling grab bag of observations about young women and sluttery.”
“The liberal mind says we need to be protected from our own sluttery and often in quite condescending ways, the misogynist mind says we have to be punished for it in universally condescending ways.”
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“I long to drink a dish of coffee in the sluttery, and hear you dun me for secrets, and "Drink your coffee -- why don't you drink your coffee?”
“I long to drink a dish of coffee in the sluttery and hear you dun me for a secret, and "Drink your coffee; why don't you drink your coffee?”
“Emmanuel College, and they were on intimate terms with many of the men who were the creators of the outer and inner life of the Commonwealth, but in their intellectual sympathies they went neither with the sectaries of the time -- "the squalid sluttery of fanatic conventicles," as S.P. puts it -- nor with the prevailing Puritan theology.”
“From some fault in the meat to complain of my maid's sluttery”
“Home to dinner, and there I took occasion, from the blacknesse of the meat as it came out of the pot, to fall out with my wife and my maid for their sluttery, and so left the table, and went up to read in”
“Dined at home all alone, and taking occasion from some fault in the meat to complain of my maid's sluttery, my wife and I fell out, and I up to my chamber in a discontent.”
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chained_bear Usage on conventicle. Oct 16, 2008