slootとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from Afrikaans sloot, from Dutch sloot, from Middle Dutch slote, sloot, from Old Dutch *slōt, from Proto-West Germanic *slaut.

別の表記

• sluit

名詞

sloot (plural sloots)

1. (South Africa) A ditch.
2. (South Africa, archaic) An irrigation channel.
   • 1901 April 26, “The March Rains”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎, volume 4, number 4, page 101:

     Gorton, Ixopo, continues to suffer from prolonged drought. The Ixopo has not been so low for the last fifty years. Some sluits around here have ceased running.

参照

• "sloot" in Dictionary of South African English

語源 2

名詞

sloot (plural sloots)

1. (slang) A slut.
   • 2013, Dan Slater, Love in the Time of Algorithms

     "I want to wait on the sexy time front though because I really am looking for an actual boyfriend and don't want him to think I'm a sloot [slut]."

アナグラム

• loots, lotos, sotol, stool, tools, tosol