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24 words match “SLATTERN”

SLATTERN a. 3 definitions
Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny. "The slattern air." Gay.
SLATTERNLINESS n.
The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.
SLATTERNLY a. 2 definitions
Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv.
DAGGLE-TAIL n.
A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.
DRABBLE-TAIL n.
A draggle-tail; a slattern. Halliwell.
DRAGGLE-TAIL n.
A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.
DRAGGLE-TAILED a.
Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. W. Irving.
FROE n.
A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. [Obs.] "Raging frantic froes." Draylon.
FROW n.
A dirty woman; a slattern. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
MAB n.
A slattern. [Prov. Eng.]
MALKIN n.
Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern. Chaucer.
MAWK n.
A slattern; a mawks. [Prov. Eng.]
MAWKINGLY adv.
Slatternly. [Obs.]
MAWKS n.
A slattern; a mawk. [Prov. Eng.]
MOPSEY; MOPSY n.
A slatternly, untidy woman. Halliwell.
SLAMKIN; SLAMMERKIN n.
A slut; a slatternly woman. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
SLOVEN n.
A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut. Pope. He became a confirmed sloven. Macaulay.
SLUT n.
An untidy woman; a slattern. Sluts are good enough to make a sloven's porridge. Old Proverb.
SLUTTERY n.
The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. Drayton.
TRAIPSE v.
To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner. [Colloq.] Pope.
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