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slattern
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A slut, a sexually promiscuous woman. 2 (context dated English) A dirty and untidy woman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "a woman negligent or disordered in her dress or household," of uncertain origin, probably related to Low German Slattje , Dutch slodder , dialectal Swedish slata "slut" (in the older, non-sexual sense; compare slut ). Compare dialectal English verb ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A slattern brought his own meal, a thickly spiced bowl of soup. ▪ A slattern , evidently his wife, looked on fearfully. ▪ Anyway, the stranger was about to leave when a slattern dropped a tankard. ▪ Two days later I was in the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slattern \Slat"tern\, a. Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny. ``The slattern air.'' --Gay.
Usage examples of slattern.
It was of black cypress and hard pine, a sagging weathered old slattern leaning comfortably on her pilings, ready to endure the hurricane winds that would flatten glossier structures.
Her bra followed, and she knelt next to him like a pixieish slattern, hair rumpled, a Super Bowl ring hanging between her bare breasts, her unfastened shorts low on her hips.
But after only a couple of weeks, she'd come up with every cockamamie reason you could imagine why she couldn't keep it up—the midwives were all stupid slatterns, know-it-alls, impossibly superstitious, religious fanatics, there was too much of a language barrier, they all were filthy and the stench of a roomful of them gagged her.
Geblon was doing double duty, picking a fight with Lamochares' men now that the slattern was gone.
She might scruple to make use of the words, but she must and did feel that her mother was a partial, ill-judging parent, a dawdle, a slattern, who neither taught nor restrained her children, whose house was the scene of mismanagement and discomfort from beginning to end, and who had no talent, no conversation, no affection towards herself.
But after only a couple of weeks, she'd come up with every cockamamie reason you could imagine why she couldn't keep it upthe midwives were all stupid slatterns, know-it-alls, impossibly superstitious, religious fanatics, there was too much of a language barrier, they all were filthy and the stench of a roomful of them gagged her, and on and on ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
Now they dirtied up and lost their paint, became slatterns, scarecrow frameworks dressed in canvas which wind had tattered and sun had turned a dead-rat color that sun gives canvas.
There, in the back room of a low dive, were Dan the Dude, the emissary who had been loitering about the laboratory, a gunman, Dago Mike, a couple of women, slatterns, one known as Kitty the Hawk, and a boy of eight or ten, whom they called Billy.
Though to his haut-dazzled senses, all the ghem-women in the room looked as coarse and dull as backcountry slatterns just now.
How would you like to spend your life on that bleak shore, surrounded by slatterns and sheep pellets?