What do you think ‘slut’ meant?

I once called my daughter a dirty slut because her bedroom was always in a mess but she was furious thinking I meant she was putting it about ?

Very amusing, but you wouldn't call them that, would you? At least not if they weren't in an Eton Mess

In my part of the world you would never want to be called a slut as you would be 'easy' sexually, also the names tart and slag are used this way. A man is congratulated by his friends for being like this!

I've always taken it to describe a woman of loose morals.

I think Ms Lawson likes to shock I ve never watched her only in clips and found her need to turn all food in to such sexiness is a load of tripe (now make tripe sexy Ms L )

Words are always evolving and changing their meaning.

The word slut, like slattern, meant some on who was sloppy, untidy, didn't obey the great god cleanliness.(I suspect that slut, slattern and sloppy, probably have much the same root word behind them.) From there it is easy to suggest that a woman whose home and person is dirty and is probably disorganised, is probably as careless, dirty and disorganised in her relationships.

Now that a womans worth is no longer judged by how white her doorstep and her washing is, it is easily to see how one meaning is used less and the other meaning becomes dominant.

"Slut" is either a slatternly housewife or housemaid, slut's wool being the fluff found under beds in rooms that are not swept often enough, or a woman of loose morals.

These days it is perfectly possible to call a promiscuous male a slut as well.

How Nigella was unaware of this I cannot think, as the dictionary has no politer definitions of the word.

Slut to me is a put down word for a woman with perceived loose sexual morals. Not a professional sex-worker, just a "no better than she should be" woman.
The kind of woman who, if she were a man, would be called "a bit of a lad(wink wink)" but as she's a woman, double standards apply.

I think it's a damn funny thing to call your pudding.

My son was once really upset when I referred to myself as a slut but I meant it as someone who was rubbish domestically and he thought it meant promiscuous.

I thought Katherine Whitehorn redefined slut in the 60s when she wrote her wonderful piece about women coping with life, taking clothes out the laundry basket because they had nothing clean etc.
It's here if you want to read it. Almost 60 years since it was written!
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I thought a slag was a prostitute who didn't charge. Slang for a nymphomaniac without class!

LauraNorder

Happy to be a slut as I’m still in bed at 10.15 and can see dust on the dressing table. Not a slag though as Orlin is the only man ever allowed to share said bed.

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BlueBelle

Slut is untidy a bit mucky
Slag is a woman who is sexually putting it around in my dictionary
Nigella Lawson just likes to shock so it doesn’t surprise me at all I don’t follow her so I wouldn’t bother using her made up names for puds

That is my definition too but I think the word slut may have changed somewhat over the years.

However, I wouldn't have fancied eating a mucky dessert even though mine often look a bit untidy.

I'll stick to Mary and Delia, thanks.

Happy to be a slut as I’m still in bed at 10.15 and can see dust on the dressing table. Not a slag though as Orlin is the only man ever allowed to share said bed.

Has she been sniffing something again ?.
I would love to see the look on dh`s face if i said you can have a slut for dinner.

Is there a word for a woman who uses derogatory words about women to gain publicity.

A man whore? My son used to refer to one of his more promiscuous friends as that.

What is the word that refers to a man of similar morals?

Spotted Dick? ?

Quite often we’ll hear slut (or slag) when referring to a woman with loose morals as far as sex is concerned. What is the word that refers to a man of similar morals?

Oops. This

I agree with this

I thought it means a can't be bothered attitude to life. Can't be bothered to clean or tidy, neither the home or person; can't be bothered to say no or put up a fight, morally, idealistically or in any other way. A bit of a waste of space really.

A slut to me is a slovenly person with a mucky house and probably dirty appearance.

I know the modern meaning, but, surely, as with so many words, context is all.

I called my mother a slut once, when I was thirteen. She slapped my face so hard that my ears rang for a week!

In fairness to my younger self I had no idea of the connotation relating to morals, I’d read the word in a book and it referred to a selfish woman who did no housework. With hindsight my mother’s life at the time was such that she had cause to think I meant the latter.

Lucca [grin
I think that she’s being disingenuous (not for the first time), of course she knew what slut meant.

Nigella used to be a really good serious journalist; I remember when she wrote a column on current affairs for the Sunday Times.
Now she just writes the occasional thing on makeup for them.