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An untidy woman; a slattern. Sluts are good enough to make a sloven's porridge. Old Proverb.

Slush. [Prov. Eng.]

Slushy. [Prov. Eng.] Pennant.

Sleuthhound.

The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. Drayton.

Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman. Why is thy lord so slutish, I thee pray. Chaucer. An air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer. Sir W. Scott. -- Slut"tish*ly, adv. -- Slut"tish*ness, n.

Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way; hence, a sluttish or slipshod woman.

A low, sluttish woman. King.

Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.

A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel. [Obs.] Hudibras.

A slut; a hussy; a drazel. [Obs.] Warner.

A low woman; a wench; a slut. "The dread of every scolding quean." Gay.

A slut; a slatternly woman. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny. "The slattern air." Gay.

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv.

at tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound. [Spelt variously slouthhound, sluthhound, etc.]

r boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut. Pope. He became a confirmed sloven. Macaulay.

One who spills water or other liquids carelessly; specifically, a sluttish woman. [Local, U.S.]

The thing stolen; stolen property. [Obs.] "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh.

A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]