"slatter" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: slatters [present, singular, third-person], slattering [participle, present], slattered [participle, past], slattered [past]
Etymology: From English dialectal slat (“to throw or dash about”), from Middle English sclatten, skleatten (“to flap”), from Old English slǣtan (“to sleat, slate”) and/or Old Norse sletta (“to slap, dash”) + -er. Etymology templates: {{m|en|slat|t=to throw or dash about}} slat (“to throw or dash about”), {{inh|en|enm|sclatten}} Middle English sclatten, {{m|enm|skleatten|t=to flap}} skleatten (“to flap”), {{inh|en|ang|slǣtan|t=to sleat, slate}} Old English slǣtan (“to sleat, slate”), {{der|en|non|sletta|t=to slap, dash}} Old Norse sletta (“to slap, dash”), {{suffix|en||er}} + -er Head templates: {{en-verb}} slatter (third-person singular simple present slatters, present participle slattering, simple past and past participle slattered)
  1. To be awkward, careless, or negligent, especially with regard to dress and neatness. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-slatter-en-verb-fCtUtHcE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 84 16
  2. To be wasteful. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-slatter-en-verb-UtNoNW37
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: slattery, slattern

Inflected forms

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