Meaning

2 senses
  1. (dialectal, rare, uncountable)Fine mud; silt; slake.

  2. (nonce word, slang, vulgar)A slutty bitch.

Origin

From Middle English slicche, from Old English *sliċ, from Proto-West Germanic *sliki, *slī

From Middle English slicche, from Old English *sliċ, from Proto-West Germanic *sliki, *slīk, from Proto-Germanic *slikiz, *slīką, from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg- (“to be slick; slide, slip”). Related to Dutch slijk (“mud, mire, slush”), German Low German Slick (“mud, silt”), German Schlick (“silt, mud”). Doublet of sleech.

Blend of slut + bitch; coined by American science fiction author Robert Heinlein in 1982 in the novel Friday.

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Word family

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See also

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