单词 | slattern |
释义 | slatternn.adj. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Now rare. 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. 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). < n.adj.c1640v.1747 |
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