Crossword clues for slattern
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slattern \Slat"tern\, n. A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.
Slattern \Slat"tern\, a.
Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny. ``The slattern
air.''
--Gay.
Slattern \Slat"tern\, v. t.
To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.
[R.]
--Chesterfield.
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 slatter "to spill or splash awkwardly, to waste," used of women or girls considered untidy or slovenly.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A slut, a sexually promiscuous woman. 2 (context dated English) A dirty and untidy woman.
WordNet
n. a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets [syn: streetwalker, street girl, hooker, hustler, floozy, floozie]
a dirty untidy woman [syn: slut, slovenly woman, trollop]
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?