sluttery

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English

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Etymology

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From slut +‎ -ery.

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Noun

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sluttery (countable and uncountable, plural slutteries)

  1. (countable) A slutty or sluttish act.
    • 2006, Ryan 'Ryonie Balogna', Before I forget:
      The tickets were valued at $80.00 and because of my slutteries, we got them free.
  2. (uncountable) The qualities or practices of a slut (promiscuous person); sluttishness; sexual promiscuity.
  3. (uncountable) The qualities or practices of a slut (slovenly person), such as untidiness and dirtiness.
    • 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):
      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.
    • 1665 November 17 (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:
      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 []
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