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▪ I. sloven, n. and a.|ˈslʌv(ə)n|
Forms: 5 sloveyn, 6 slovayne, sloueyne, slovein; 6 slouyn, -in, slovyn, slooven, 6–7 slouen, 6– sloven.
[Of doubtful origin; perh. an AF. formation on Flem. sloef dirty, squalid, shabby (see Kilian), or Du. slof careless, negligent.]
A. n.
†1. A person of low character or manners; a knave, rascal. Obs.
c1450Cov. Myst. xxiii. (Shaks. Soc.) 218 Com forth, thou sloveyn! com forthe, thou scolde! 1515Barclay Ecloges ii. (1570) B iij b, If thou one manchet dare handle or els touche,..Then shall some slouen thee dashe on the eare. 1530Palsgr. 271/2 Slovyn, a knave, a rybaude, ribauldeau. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark iii. 29 He wandered up and downe with a sort of rascal slouens, and vile felowes folowing him at the heles. c1680Delect. Hist. of Poor Robin v, How poor Robin served one of his Companions a slovens trick.
†2. A person of slothful or indolent habits or way of life; a lazy, idle fellow. Obs.
1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 191 Some sluggyssh slouyns, that slepe day and nyght. 1530Palsgr. 271/2 Sloven or luske, bovcanier. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 355 Let vs abhorre to resemble that slouthfull slouen, who..differed nothing from a dead carkasse.
attrib.1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 574/2 Not a litle child, but a great slouen slouche.
3. a. One who is careless or negligent in respect of dress, personal appearance, or cleanliness; an untidy or dirty person.
1530Palsgr. 424 Thou shalte be but a slovayne and thou were clothed in clothe of golde. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 164, I can call them by none other name but slovens, that maie have good geare, and neither can nor yet will once weare it clenly. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. v. (1651) 83 Madrit,..a pleasant site; but the inhabitants are slovens, and the streets uncleanly kept. 1690C. Nesse Hist. & Myst. O. & N. Test. I. 77 Good meat may be disowned for being dress'd up by some nasty sloven. 1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. vii. Wks. 1709 III. i. 63 Marriage..often melts down a Beau into an errant Sloven. 1796Burke Regicide Peace Wks. II. 365 The committee for foreign affairs were such slovens, and stunk so abominably, that [etc.]. 1825Sir J. Bowring Autobiog. Recoll. (1877) 319 She came in—a dirty sloven, her hair tangled, a common cotton gown on. c1850Macaulay Biog. (1860) 88 Being frequently under the necessity of wearing shabby coats,..he [Johnson] became a confirmed sloven.
†b. Used allusively in Sloven's Hall, Sloven's Inn, Sloven's press. Obs.
c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 5 Patrycke peuysshe, a conynge dyrte dauber, Worshypfull wardayn of slouens In. 1594Nashe Terrors of Night Wks. (Grosart) III. 258 They haue beene layd vp in slouens presse, and with miscarriage and misgouernment are so fretted and galled [etc.]. 1600― Summer's Last Will 682 That pride is not my sinne, Slouens Hall where I was borne, by my record.
4. One who works, etc. in a careless, perfunctory, or slipshod manner; a writer who is careless in style or composition.
1771Goldsm. Haunch of Venison 113 The baker..that negligent sloven Had shut out the pasty on shutting his oven. 1799A. Young View Agric. Linc. 138 There are some slovens remaining, who either hoe but little, or..execute it in a very insufficient manner. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 24 He that in Blank-Verse a sloven can be, Must slur every flight of divine Poesy. 1846Landor Imag. Conv. I. 224 It must be conceded that we moderns are but slovens in composition. 1884J. Parker Apost. Life II. 306 The painter who desires..to reach perfection will excel the sloven who never knew the compulsion of a pure ambition.
5. Canad. (See quots. 1895, 1941.) Also called sloven-wagon.
1895Dialect Notes I. 381 Sloven, a low truck wagon. 1907Canad. Mag. XXIX. 442/1 It is called a ‘sloven-waggon’ (doubtless for some good reason). 1941H. MacLennan Barometer Rising 11 Grinding on the cobble⁓stones behind a pair of plunging Clydesdales came one of Halifax's most typical vehicles, a low-slung dray with a high driver's box, known as a sloven. 1964Atlantic Advocate Aug. 79 As evening approached the horses were hitched to a long, low wagon, known in our country as a ‘sloven’, and the apples were hauled to the house.
6. Forestry. (See quot. 1957.)
1946F. Sargeson That Summer 175 The stumps still had the sloven sticking up. 1953H. L. Edlin Forester's Handbk. xiii. 201 Only when the crown of the tree strikes the ground will the last link be broken; the ‘hinge’ will then break, the tree pulling an irregular splinter of wood out of the stump below it. This splinter, or sloven, is then sawn off. 1957Brit. Commonwealth Forest Terminol. ii. 178 Sloven, the torn splintered portion of timber left on a stump or the end of a butt, where the key finally broke when the tree fell.
B. adj. Slovenly. Also U.S., uncultivated; untrained.
1815Sporting Mag. XLVI. 54 This sloven way of touching the component parts of a landscape. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 73 In sloven garb appears each bawling boy. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Stonehenge, There, in that great sloven continent, in high Alleghany pastures,..still sleeps and murmurs..the great mother [Nature]. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 156 The sloven imagination of people who received no religious instruction.
▪ II. sloven, v. rare.|ˈslʌv(ə)n|
[f. sloven n.]
†1. intr. To be slothful or indolent. Obs. rare.
1560Pilkington Aggeus E viij b, Is it tyme for you to lye slouenyng in your couches night and day, and Gods house vnbuylded? Ibid. F iiij b, The sluggarde..is a slouen styll and lyes slouenynge in hys bed, takyng no paynes to doo good.
†2. refl. To dress in a slovenly or untidy manner. Obs.—1
a1591H. Smith Serm. (1622) 37 They care not how they slouen themselves, so their Wiues jet like Peacockes.
3. trans. To expend, to treat, in a slovenly or careless manner. rare.
1824C. Wells Joseph & Brethren i. i, I cannot bear To see thy dotage sloven'd on a child. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xix. 487 No one, I should think, would be so hardy as to maintain..that Shakespeare slovened his insignificant characters in order to throw his principals into high relief.
Hence ˈslovened ppl. a., done in a slovenly manner; † ˈslovening ppl. a., idle; indolent (obs.).
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Jude II. 23 Doe not they sinne after like sorte, which being deluded with slouening dreames of false pleasures [etc.]. Ibid., James II. 38 Your golde and your siluer is marred with rust in the custody of a nygarde & slouening heyre. 1937‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier i. i. 17 It was not only the dirt.., but the feeling..of having got down into some subterranean place where people go creeping round and round..in an endless muddle of slovened jobs and mean grievances. |