slattern
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- noun
- /ˈslætərn/
- Slur
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[término ofensivo para una mujer desaliñada]
- After weeks without cleaning, the room looked like it belonged to a slattern, with clothes and dishes scattered everywhere.
Examples
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You look like a slattern goin' around the house this way.
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At this time they're nothing but slatterns?
Blog text (30) -
Wretched slattern!
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The rest of us ordinary slatterns are content to go on snorting and sputtering the whole night through.
Blog text (19) -
A brawny slattern, with a beehive of hair dyed red and a smutched apron, answered the knocker.
Fiction book (1993) -
Spawn of my sister Nat—an amiable, boozy slattern—Josh grew up in a succession of trailer parks scattered around the purlieus of New Orleans.
Fiction book (2002) -
She was known as a slattern in the village because her clothes were always dirty and disheveled.
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People often described her as a slattern due to her messy hair and unkempt appearance.
Synonyms
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A person who is messy and does not care about their clothes or home
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A woman who is dirty or untidy
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A person who is often untidy and not clean
Antonyms
Compounds
- Slur
A woman in a story shown as untidy and often having many sexual partners
How Tidy
- Informal
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- Slur
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Slattern comes from an old English word for a woman who was 'dirty' or 'untidy', and you can remember it by thinking of the similar modern words slatternly and sloven, both meaning messy; so a slattern is someone who is habitually untidy.