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English

Etymology 1

See slat (“a strip of board”).

Noun

slatt (plural slatts)

1. A stone slab used as a veneer for coarse masonry.

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Etymology 2

Acronym of slime love all the time or slime life all the time coined and popularised by Young Thug.

Interjection

slatt

1. (slang) Used to express affection between friends, especially within rapper communities.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse sláttr, from Proto-Germanic *slahtuz.

Noun

slatt m (definite slattn, plural slatta)

1. melody
2. (uncountable) the hay harvest

Derived terms

• slattænn f (“the time of the hay harvest”)

English

Alternative forms

• sloath, slowth (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English slouthe, slewthe (“laziness”), from Old English sl?wþ (“sloth, indolence, laziness, inertness, torpor”), from Proto-Germanic *slaiwiþ? (“slowness, lateness”), equivalent to slow +? -th. Cognate with Scots sleuth (“sloth, slowness”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sl???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sl??/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /sl??/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /sl??/
• Rhymes: -???, -??

Noun

sloth (countable and uncountable, plural sloths)

1. (uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
   • 1758, Benjamin Franklin, Preliminary Address to the Pennsylvania Almanac

     Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears.

2. (countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
3. (rare) A collective term for a group of bears.

Usage notes

Sloth is one of the seven deadly sins.

Synonyms

• (animal): tardigrade

Hyponyms

• (animal): two-toed sloth, three-toed sloth

Derived terms

Related terms

• slowth

Translations

Verb

sloth (third-person singular simple present sloths, present participle slothing, simple past and past participle slothed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive, transitive) To be idle; to idle (away time).

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   • 1676, John Bunyan, The Strait Gate, or, Great Difficulty of Going to Heaven, London: Francis Smith, p. 69,^[1]

     […] the most of professors are for imbezzeling, mispending and slothing away their time, their talents, their opportunities to do good in […]

   • 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 2,^[2]

     That you endeavour carefully to please your Lady, Master or Mistress, be faithful, diligent and submissive to them, encline not to sloth or laze in bed, but rise early in a morning.

Further reading

• sloth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sloth in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Loths, holts, loths