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ˈslammakin, ˈslammerkin, n. and a. Chiefly dial.
Also 9 slammockin, slomm-, slummackin, etc.; 9 slommacking, -icking, -ocking, 20 slummocking.
[Of obscure origin; the shorter forms slammack(s, slommack(s occur widely in dialect, but are not recorded before the 19th century.
Mrs. Slammekin, who is described as affecting a careless undress, is a character in Gay's Beggars' Opera (1727). It is more probable that the colloquial word suggested the name than that it was subsequently derived from it.]
A. n.
†1. A loose gown or dress. Obs.—1
1756Connoisseur No. 134 ⁋7 A burgess's daughter..who appeared in a Trolloppee or Slammerkin, with treble ruffles to the cuffs.
2. A slovenly female, a sloven, a slattern.
α1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Slammakin, a female sloven, one whose clothes seem hung on with a pitch fork, a careless trapes. 1808Jamieson, Slammikin, a drab, a slovenly woman; Loth[ian]. 1839Sir G. C. Lewis Gloss. Heref., Slammockin, a slattern.
β1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall (1823) I. 103 A brisk, coquettish woman; a little of a shrew, and something of a slammerkin.
B. adj. Untidy, slovenly.
Ash Suppl. (1775) gives ‘Slammerkin (a droll word), irregular in motion, making a sudden transition’; the existence of this sense is very doubtful.
α1794Wolcot (P. Pindar) Soldier of Tilbury Wks. 1812 III. 241 So slammakin, untidy, ragged, mean, Her garments all so shabby and unpinn'd. 1864Le Fanu Uncle Silas III. 157 Holding out with finger and thumb..her slammakin old skirt. Ibid. 261 The vainest and most slammakin of women.
β1837Thackeray Professor Wks. 1900 XIII. 499 That saucy, slammerkin, sentimental Miss Grampus. 1863Examiner 14 Nov., His Minerva is a tawdry slammerkin slattern. 1887M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike xxxvii, The slammerkin Irish housekeeper.
γ1841Hartshorne Salop. Ant. Gloss., Slommacking,..unwieldy, clumsy. c1850H. & A. Mayhew The Good Genius xvi, A nasty slommicking bit of goods, with her things all hanging about her anyhow. 1873Daily News 30 Aug. 5/6 His high cheek bones and slommocking gait. 1960R. Collier House called Memory iv. 53 A big slummocking girl with cropped hair and braying laugh. 1978S. Radley Death & Maiden iv. 37 They're a slummocking family..always have been. |