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Scruffy nurse guzzles milky coffee, extremely loudly
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slatternly
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Word definitions for slatternly in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Appropriate to or characteristic of a slattern. adv. In a slatternly manner.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. used especially of women [syn: blowsy , blowzy , sluttish ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slatternly \Slat"tern*ly\, a. Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv. In a slatternly manner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from slattern + -ly (1).
Usage examples of slatternly.
A lot of slatternly women flitted hither and thither in a hurry, with coffee-pots, plates of bread, and other appurtenances to supper, and these were said to be the wives of the Angel--or some of them, at least.
Through the open doorway a slatternly woman was visible behind a plank set on a couple of kegs, dispensing what might charitably be termed whisky to a barefoot white man in the togs and tarred pigtail of a British sailor, a keelboatman whose clothing and body could be smelled from the door, and a couple of the weariest, grubbiest whores January had ever seen in his life.
The first was a florist's van, driven by a slatternly woman smoking a cigarette.
He could appreciate D’ram not wanting those slatternly drudges about a freshened Weyr.