"slattern" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈslætɚn/ [General-American], /ˈslætən/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-slattern.wav Forms: slatterns [plural]
Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)n Etymology: Dating from the 17th century; related to slattering (“slovenly”), from the dialectal verb slatter (“to slop, to spill”). Head templates: {{en-noun}} slattern (plural slatterns)
  1. (derogatory) A slut, a sexually promiscuous woman. Tags: derogatory Categories (topical): People Synonyms: promiscuous woman
    Sense id: en-slattern-en-noun-FJoznvqT Disambiguation of People: 69 31
  2. (dated) One who is uncareful or unconcerned about appearance or surroundings, usually said of a dirty and untidy woman. Tags: dated Synonyms: moggy [archaic] Translations (dated: dirty and untidy woman): повлекана (povlekana) [feminine] (Bulgarian), cuchta [feminine] (Czech), špindíra [feminine] (Czech), luuska (Finnish), salope [feminine, masculine] (French), traînée [feminine] (French), garce [feminine] (French), abarlach [feminine] (Irish), sciattona [feminine] (Italian), lupa [feminine] (Latin), неря́ха (nerjáxa) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), замара́шка (zamaráška) [feminine] (Russian), грязну́ля (grjaznúlja) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), puerca [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-slattern-en-noun-McF8OIon Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 30 70 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 20 80 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 37 63 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 38 62 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 19 81 Disambiguation of 'dated: dirty and untidy woman': 22 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: slattern away, slatternliness, slatternly

Inflected forms

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          "text": "3. Cookery is familiar to her, with the price and quality of provisions; and she is a ready accountant. Her chief view, however, is to serve her mother and lighten her cares. She holds cleanliness and neetness to be indispensable in a woman; and that a slattern is disgusting, especially if beautiful.",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.