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slattern

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slat·tern  (sltrn)
n.
An untidy, dirty woman.
[Perhaps from dialectal slattering, slovenly, present participle of dialectal slatter, to slop.]
slattern
Noun
Old-fashioned a dirty and untidy woman [probably from dialect slatter to slop]
slatternliness n
slatternly adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.slattern - a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
floozie, floozy, hustler, street girl, streetwalker, hooker
bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl - a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
2.slatternslattern - a dirty untidy woman                
slovenly woman, slut, trollop
slob, sloven, slovenly person, pig - a coarse obnoxious person


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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; no curiosity to know her better, no desire of her friendship, and no inclination for her company that could lessen her sense of such feelings.
Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context
He thought of Cronshaw bound to a vulgar slattern, and he shuddered with dismay .
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
"Yes, sir, yes," said Bartle, rising, and taking off his spectacles, "I'll do that, I'll do that; though the mother's a whimpering thing--I don't like to come within earshot of her; however, she's a straight-backed, clean woman, none of your slatterns.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
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