slattern

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His wife would not be an ignorant slattern, the victim of incompetent servants.

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  1. noun An untidy, dirty woman.

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  • Children playing ball in the street were sent scurrying for cover by her shrill objections, and any woman whose clothes were visibly dirty would be assailed by words such as "slattern" or "slut." —  EQMM, Sep/Oct 2005
  • "Such water doesn't work unless you drink it That's all you know, slattern," Grotesk called from land. —  Man from Mundania
  • While "slattern" and "French letter" are dated, they made me think of those cute nicknames parents give the vagina, labia, penis, and scrotum when talking to their kids. —  feminist blogs
  • The skyscrapers were no longer steel skeletons with thin facings of stone hung upon them like a slattern's apron, while the practice of daubing mud on chickenwire hastily laid over paper was discontinued. —  Greener Than You Think
  • The slattern is no slattern now; she is always dainty and nice and neat; the golden youth is generous to a fault, and noble in all his ways; and if either or both should be somewhat foolish, or even downright stupid, the lack of wisdom is concealed by a tender smile or a soft touch of the hand. —  The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Perhaps from dialectal slattering, slovenly, present participle of dialectal slatter, to slop.

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  1. Prob. (with unorig. n as in bittern, or perhaps through the present participle slattering) from slatter, v.
  2. from slattern, n.; cf. slatter, v.
 

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/ˈslætərn/
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