sluttery
nounEtymology From slut + -ery.
1
A slutty or sluttish act.
- The tickets were valued at $80.00 and because of my slutteries, we got them free.2006, Ryan 'Ryonie Balogna', Before I forget:
2
The qualities or practices of a slut (promiscuous person); sluttishness; sexual promiscuity.
3
The qualities or practices of a slut (slovenly person), such as untidiness and dirtiness.
- Where fires thou find'st unrak'd, and hearths unswept, / There pinch the Maids as blew as Bill-berry, / Our radiant Queene, hates Sluts, and Sluttery.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- 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 […]1665 November 16 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “November 7th, 1665”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC:
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- Others are sent To make the maids their sluttery rue, By pinching them both black and blue.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: H.G. Bohn, page 299:
- Related terms
- slut, slutty, sluttiness, sluttishness