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▪ I. slattern, n. and a.|ˈslætən|
Also 7 slaterne, 7–8 slatern.
[Related to prec.]
A. n. A woman or girl untidy and slovenly in person, habits, or surroundings; a slut. (See also quot. 1639.)
1639J. Smyth in Glouc. Gloss. (1890) 199 A slaterne, i.e. a rude ill bred woman. a1668Davenant Play-Ho. to be Let Wks. (1673) 118 Good Housewife in House, not sauntering young slatern. 1669Dryden Royal Martyr Epil., Here Nelly lies, who, though she liv'd a Slattern, Yet dy'd a Princess, acting in St. Cathar'n. 1710Addison Tatler No. 243 ⁋3 That Species of Women which we call a Slattern. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Women (1767) I. ii. 76 Butterflies one day, and slatterns the next. 1845Mrs. Norton Child of Islands (1846) 110 His wife a shrew and slattern. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect II. 314 The young girls were tawdry slatterns.
b. Applied to a man. rare—1.
1849Thackeray Pendennis v, He was now..as great a dandy as he before had been a slattern.
B. adj. Slovenly, untidy, slatternly. Said of appearance, etc., or of persons.
(a)1716Gay Trivia iii. 270 Beneath the Lamp her tawdry Ribbons glare, The new-scower'd Manteau, and the slattern Air. 1784J. Barry Lect. Art vi. (1848) 208 Works formed out of trite, vulgar, slattern matter. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall xvii. 146, I could not but admire a certain degree of slattern elegance about the baggage. 1861D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter ii, At the best his room has a slattern air.
(b)1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 340, I recognised..in his slattern spouse, the once trim and dimpling columbine. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. p. xlix, He plods his way to a fireless hut, where a slattern wife and ragged children receive him.
transf.1896Westm. Gaz. 16 Dec. 4/3 The slipshod writer and the slattern thinker.
▪ II. slattern, v.|ˈslætən|
[f. prec.]
1. trans. To fritter or throw away (time, opportunity, etc.) by carelessness or slovenliness.
1747Chesterfield Lett. (1774) I. ci. 242 Every fool, who slatterns away his whole time in nothings. 1755― in World No. 148, I have known many a passion..(if I may use the expression) wholly slatterned away, by an unguarded and illiberal familiarity. 1785Town & Co. Mag. Nov. 594 This class..frequently slattern away a reputation for the sake of idolatry. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 103 The mournful folly with which they slatterned away the noblest opportunity.
2. To work over in a slovenly manner.
1807E. S. Barrett Rising Sun II. 4 Many of our great men in office..generally slattern over what they are obliged to do, by proxy.
3. intr. To play the slattern.
1856Masson Ess. vi. 246 [They] and the niece are slatterning about the house. |