sloot

noun — 3 senses

sloot

noun

/ˈsluːt/ · /ˈsluːɪt/

Etymology Borrowed from Afrikaans sloot, from Dutch sloot, from Middle Dutch slote, sloot, from Old Dutch *slōt, from Proto-West Germanic *slaut.

1

South Africa A ditch.

2

South Africa, Archaic An irrigation channel.

  • Gorton, Ixopo, continues to suffer from prolonged drought. The Ixopo has not been so low for the last fifty years. Some sluits around here have ceased running.1901 April 26, “The March Rains”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 4, page 101:

sloot

noun
1

Slang A slut.

  • "I want to wait on the sexy time front though because I really am looking for an actual boyfriend and don't want him to think I'm a sloot [slut]."2013, Dan Slater, Love in the Time of Algorithms:

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