sket

¹

/ skɛt /

noun

1. derogatory.
   a promiscuous girl or woman

sket

²

/ skɛt /

verb

1. to splash (water)
2. to splash (someone with water)

Word History and Origins

Origin of sket¹

C20: origin unknown

Origin of sket²

perhaps from Old Norse skjóta to shoot

Example Sentences

In the music video Malorie walks alongside another author, Jade LB, who wrote the award winning book - Keisha the Sket.

From BBC

The writer of Keisha Da Sket needs to come forward and get herself a movie deal though.

From BBC

It was 2005 and Jade didn't have internet at home, so at first the story of "Keisha the Sket" lay dormant on her laptop's notes page.

From BBC

It tells of her inner turmoil at developing a sexual appetite, but not wanting to appear a "sket" among boys in her area.

From BBC

TL to TL, who actually wrote Keisha da Sket?

From BBC

About This Word

What else does sket mean?

Sket is yet another slang term for a promiscuous woman in the UK.

Unrelated is the 2000s Japanese manga series Sket Dance. Sket, in this case, is short for Support, Kindness, Encouragement, and Troubleshoot.

Where does sket come from?

Sket originated in the UK during the early 2000s in the slang of Multicultural London English. Its source is obscure, but it may be related to the Jamaican English skettel, or a woman who dresses in dancehall fashion. When you’re going dancing, you move your body. To get better movement, you wear fewer clothes. And, as double standards go, when women move their bodies and wear less clothing, you get called slut, apparently, or in this case, sket.

Sket is most familiar, and notorious, in the UK. In 2014, Manchester United Football Club player Rio Ferdinand was fined £25,000 and suspended for 3 games after tweeting the word sket.  He had gotten into a Twitter fight with a critic, eventually insulting the user’s mother as sket to his 5.9 million followers.

In 2011, a London-set thriller film, called Sket, followed an interracial girl gang as they dealt drugs, dealt with family, and dealt revenge.

How is sket used in real life?

As an insult for “slut,” sket specifically means “dirty” and “trashy,” true of its sister terms like whore. Urban Dictionary entries for the term uses modifiers like scabby and crusty.

Sket may also demean a woman not only for sexual promiscuity but also for being manipulative and contemptible more generally. Both women and men may use the term in this way.

You must be a pure sket going near a boy who has a girlfriend 🤮 no excuses like there’s over a billion people in the world lol find your own boy

— paulina (@paulinaotola) August 15, 2018

As true of some other gender words like bitch, some women have reclaimed sket, using the term positively as a sign of solidarity, camaraderie, or sexual liberation.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY GIRRRRRRL!! @Ellie_may_12 Have an amazing day & get sloshed & I wish I was there with ya!❤️ love you sket pic.twitter.com/nF0Jnsf5tt

— amaris (@amxris_) August 12, 2017

Note

This content is not meant to be a formal definition of this term. Rather, it is an informal summary that seeks to provide supplemental information and context important to know or keep in mind about the term’s history, meaning, and usage.