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单词 slattern
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slatternn.adj.

Brit. /ˈslatn/, /ˈslatəːn/, U.S. /ˈslædərn/
Forms: 1600s slaterne, 1600s–1700s slatern, 1600s– slattern.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: slattering adj.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant (with contraction) of slattering adj. (although that is first attested later); compare especially sense 2 at that entry. If so, this word was probably first used as an adjective, in spite of the chronology of the surviving evidence.
Now somewhat dated, or used self-consciously for stylistic effect.
A. n.
1. An untidy or slovenly woman; a woman who is habitually careless, lazy, or negligent with regard to appearance, household cleanliness, etc. Also applied to a man (rare).In quot. c1640 used as a humorous surname.In quot. a1641: a rude or coarse woman.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun] > woman or girl
slut1402
dawa1500
drab?1518
dawkin1565
suss?1565
mab1568
drassock1573
daggle-tail1577
drossel1581
driggle-draggle1588
draggle-tail1596
soss1611
slatternc1640
slutterya1652
feague1664
traipse1676
drazel1678
mopsy1699
dab1736
slammerkin1737
rubbacrock1746
trollop1753
dratchell1755
heap1806
dolly-mop1834
sozzle1848
tat1936
scrubber1959
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun] > man or boy
ragamuffin1586
slattern1845
c1640 Worst is Past (single sheet) When as Ioan slattern cleanly growes, Doth cut her nails, and pare her toes..Why then I think the worst is past.
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 25 A slaterne, i.e. a rude ill bred woman.
a1668 W. Davenant Play-house to be Let in Wks. (1673) 118 Good Housewife in House, not sauntering young slatern.
1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. ii. 76 Nor will you be in danger of appearing butterflies one day, and slatterns the next.
1845 M. Fuller Let. 9 Mar. (1987) IV. 56 He is, in his habits, a slattern and plebeian, and in his heart, a nobleman.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. v. 43 He was now..as great a dandy as he before had been a slattern.
1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 314 The young girls were tawdry slatterns.
1976 ‘Trevanian’ Main (1977) xiii. 243 A young slattern who tugs a snarl out of her hair with her fingers.
1999 J. Harris Chocolat (2000) xxxviii. 309 I am not sure why I am surprised that the place is so clean; I imagined her a slattern, leaving pans unwashed and plates stacked in the sink and long black hairs in the cake mixture.
2009 @andywasley 9 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 30 May 2019) The obese man in the seat behind me sounds like he's eating the train. He scowled at me. BEFORE I had a chance to call him a fat slattern.
2. A disreputable or sexually promiscuous woman. Cf. slut n. 2a.In early use difficult to distinguish from sense A. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman
queanOE
whorec1175
malkinc1275
wenchelc1300
ribalda1350
strumpeta1350
wench1362
filtha1375
parnelc1390
sinner14..
callet1415
slut?c1425
tickle-tailc1430
harlot?a1475
mignote1489
kittock?a1500
mulea1513
trulla1516
trully?1515
danta1529
miswoman1528
stewed whore1532
Tib1533
unchaghe1534
flag1535
Katy1535
jillet1541
yaud1545
housewife1546
trinkletc1550
whippet1550
Canace1551
filthy1553
Jezebel1558
kittyc1560
loonc1560
laced mutton1563
nymph1563
limmer1566
tomboy1566
Marian1567
mort1567
cockatrice1568
franion1571
blowze1573
rannell1573
rig1575
Kita1577
poplet1577
light-skirts1578
pucelle1578
harlotry1584
light o' lovea1586
driggle-draggle1588
wagtail1592
tub-tail1595
flirt-gill1597
minx1598
hilding1599
short-heels1599
bona-roba1600
flirt1600
Hiren1600
light-heels1602
roba1602
baggage1603
cousin1604
fricatrice1607
rumbelow1611
amorosa1615
jaya1616
open-taila1618
succubus1622
snaphancea1625
flap1631
buttered bun1638
puffkin1639
vizard1652
fallen woman1659
tomrigg1662
cunt1663
quaedama1670
jilt1672
crack1677
grass-girl1691
sporting girl1694
sportswoman1705
mobbed hood1707
brim1736
trollop1742
trub1746
demi-rep1749
gillyflower1757
lady of easy virtue1766
mot1773
chicken1782
gammerstang1788
buer1807
scarlet woman1816
blowen1819
fie-fie1820
shickster?1834
streel1842
charver1846
trolly1854
bad girl1855
amateur1862
anonyma1862
demi-virgin1864
pickup1871
chippy1885
wish-wife1886
tart1887
tartleta1890
flossy1893
fly girl1893
demi-mondaine1894
floozy1899
slattern1899
scrub1900
demi-vierge1908
cake1909
coozie1912
muff1914
tarty1918
yes-girl1920
radge1923
bike1945
puta1948
messer1951
cooze1955
jamette1965
skeezer1986
slutbag1987
chickenhead1988
ho1988
1899 C. F. Nirdlinger Masques & Mummers 146 The spectator is asked to sympathize with the vulgar caprices, the libidinous phantasies, the tawdry jealousies, the hysterical vaporings..of a burnt-out slattern.
1925 L. O'Flaherty Informer (1961) ii. 25 Now she had become an abandoned woman, known as such even among the prostitutes of the brothel quarter, a drug fiend, a slattern.
1978 Irish Times 13 Feb. 10/1 My wife has changed from a lovely, kind, considerate respectable girl to a middle-aged accident scarred alcoholic, promiscuous, a bitter slattern full of lies.
2019 @hoellerache 15 May in twitter.com (accessed 20 Nov. 2019) In the anti-choice world, women who want abortions are promiscuous slatterns whose loose morals find them willingly inebriated and impregnated by whatever fleet happens to be in port.
B. adj. (attributive).
1. Of a person, esp. a woman: untidy, slovenly; habitually careless, lazy, or negligent with regard to appearance, household cleanliness, etc. Also in extended use.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [adjective] > of their dress or habits
sluttishc1405
slovenlya1568
slatternly1655
mawkinly1656
slattern1680
sloven-like1800
sloven1821
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [adjective]
untidya1375
unred1528
sluttish?1529
untrimmed?1529
untrick1570
untrim1570
shevelled1613
hirsute1621
incompta1628
messy1627
unneat1648
tawdry1672
slattern1680
bunting1759
untrig1821
sloggering1825
slummocking1825
scrambling1826
poucey1829
anyhow1831
mullocky1839
ragtail1846
mussy1859
slubbery1880
unshipshape1883
mussed1888
slummocky1898
ruggy1929
idle1956
1680 Earl of Rochester et al. Poems 43 And may not I, have leave impartially, To..try..if his lumpish fancy, does refuse, Spirit and Grace, to his loose slattern Muse?
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 340 I recognised..in his slattern spouse, the once trim and dimpling columbine.
1846 J. 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.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 16 Dec. 4/3 The slipshod writer and the slattern thinker.
1951 W. C. Alvarez Neuroses iii. x. 173 The child who is brought up in a miserable home by a slattern mother and a drunken father.
1989 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 19 Sept. George is a contemplative history professor and Martha is his shrewish, slattern wife.
2. Of a condition, quality, action, or thing: slovenly, untidy, dirty; careless, sloppy.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [adjective]
sluttishc1405
sluttya1425
slut?a1513
drabbish1566
drabby1612
sordid1613
slithy1622
sleathy1652
slattering1673
slatternly1677
slattern1683
trapish1703
slammerkin1742
trolloping1770
unheppen1790
trollopy1800
slatternish1833
haveless1868
1683 Fifteen Real Comforts of Matrimony i. 2 He must be no other than one of those pittiful muck-worms..that lowres at the finer and more curious Dress of his Wife, as if neatness and cleanliness belonged onely to Maids, and slattern carelesness to Wives.
1716 J. Gay Trivia iii. 71 Beneath the Lamp her tawdry Ribbons glare, The new-scower'd Manteau, and the slattern Air.
a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 208 Works formed out of trite, vulgar, slattern matter.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xvii. 146 I could not but admire a certain degree of slattern elegance about the baggage.
1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter ii At the best his room has a slattern air.
1951 P. I. Wellman Iron Mistress xii. 99 Two or three girls who..might have been pretty but for their unkempt hair and slattern dress.
2011 @MmeGuillotine 11 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 30 May 2019) I DREAD the day someone opens a kitchen cupboard as my slattern ways will be revealed and they will end up concussed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

slatternv.

Brit. /ˈslatn/, /ˈslatəːn/, U.S. /ˈslædərn/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: slattern n., slattern adj.
Etymology: Partly < slattern n. and perhaps also partly < slattern adj. Compare earlier slatter v.2 and slattering adj.
Now rare.
1. transitive. To fritter or throw away (time, opportunity, etc.) by carelessness or slovenliness; to squander or waste (something). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > treat or use carelessly
slattern1747
sloven1771
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > waste
spilla1000
scatter1154
aspilla1250
rospa1325
waste1340
spend1390
consumec1425
waste1474
miswenda1500
forsumea1510
to cast away1530
to throw away1561
embezzle1578
squander1593
palter1595
profuse1611
squander1611
ravel1614
sport1622
to fool away1628
to stream out1628
to fribble away1633
sweal1655
frisk1665
to fiddle away1667
wantonize1673
slattera1681
swattle1681
drivel1686
swatter1690
to muddle away1707
squander1717
sot1746
slattern1747
meisle1808
fritter1820
waster1821
slobber1837
to cut to waste1863
fringe1863
potter1883
putter1911
profligate1938
to piddle away1942
haemorrhage1978
spaff2002
1747 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 11 Dec. (1932) (modernized text) III. 1065 Every fool who slatterns away his whole time in nothings.
1785 Town & Co. Mag. Nov. 594 This class..frequently slattern away a reputation for the sake of idolatry.
1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 103 The mournful folly with which they slatterned away the noblest opportunity.
1884 Good Templars' Watchword 11 Feb. 80/3 The republican party has slatterned away and quarrelled away more than half its influence.
2. intransitive. To work something over in a careless or slovenly manner. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > perform without accuracy or thoroughness
to toy with ——1563
skima1586
slubber1592
slobber1630
huddle1648
to shuffle over, through1656
slobber1765
slattern1781
scuffle1785
slur1857
perfunctorize1866
smatter1881
1781 J. Williamson Elem. Mil. Arrangem. vii. 116 Very few manœuvres will suffice for a battalion..and those few judiciously chosen and well performed will do a regiment more credit..than twice the number here collected slatterned over in an imperfect manner.
1807 E. 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. intransitive. To behave like a slattern.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > behave as dirty person [verb (intransitive)]
slotter1553
pig1637
rubble1637
slaister1756
slattern1851
1851 D. Masson Chatterton ii. i, in Dublin Univ. Mag. Oct. 425/1 [They] and the niece are slatterning about the house.
2011 @laurajaneface 25 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 30 May 2019) While I am slatterning about hungover and eating sausage sandwiches my friend @Hen_is is running the berlin marathon. I'm so proud!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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