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Sluttish is the adjective built from 'slut', and it carries the same very offensive judgement: it describes a woman, or her clothes or behaviour, as sexually loose. As with the noun, learn it to recognise it, never to use it. It has a slightly different feel from the noun, though, and the difference is worth noticing. 'Slut' is spat directly at a person; 'sluttish' is more often used at a distance, about appearance — 'sluttish clothes', 'sluttish makeup' — which makes it sound like the cool judgement of someone looking down on her. That does not make it kinder; it is the tone of an old-fashioned novel or a relative, and it is still an attack. The word is also old-fashioned. You will meet it in books written a hundred years ago far more than in speech today, and in those older books you may find it in its original sense of dirty and , describing a messy room or a badly kept house with no sexual meaning at all. So if you find 'sluttish' in an old novel, check what the writer is looking at — the housekeeping or the woman. If you want to describe clothes in normal English today, say 'revealing' if you mean it shows a lot of skin, and nothing at all if you simply mean you do not like it.
形容女性(或其穿著)性關係隨便的侮辱性用語;舊書中也可能只是「邋遢、不整潔」的意思
組成slut + -ish (having the quality of). The -ish ending is the same one in 'childish' and 'foolish' — it turns a noun into 'like that, in a bad way'.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sluttishadj/ˈslʌtɪʃ/
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vulgarLike a slut; sexually promiscuous.
- His name was perhaps the least likely ever to have been young: it evoked for me the sunless complexion, unaired suiting, steel-rimmed glasses of a ledger clerk in a vanished age. Or had done so, before I found my beautiful, cocky, sluttish Arthur—an Arthur it was impossible to imagine old.
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datedDirty or untidy; disorderly.
- […] an air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer.
- […] and it was dark and sluttish as all Burmese rooms are, though U Po Kyin had furnished it 'Ingaleik fashion' with a veneered sideboard and chairs […]"
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。