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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SLAT'TERN, n. A woman who is negligent of her dress, or who suffers her clothes and furniture to be in disorder; one who is not neat and nice.
SLAT'TERN, v.i. To slattern away, to consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets [syn: streetwalker, street girl, hooker, hustler, floozy, floozie, slattern]
2: a dirty untidy woman [syn: slattern, slut, slovenly woman, trollop]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: probably from German schlottern to hang loosely, slouch; akin to Dutch slodderen to hang loosely, slodder slut Date: circa 1639 an untidy slovenly woman; also slut, prostitute II. adjective Date: 1684 slatternly

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a slovenly woman. Derivatives: slatternly adj. slatternliness n. Etymology: 17th c.: rel. to slattering slovenly, f. dial. slatter to spill, slop, waste, frequent. of slat strike

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Slattern Slat"tern, n. A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Slattern Slat"tern, a. Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny. ``The slattern air.'' --Gay.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Slattern Slat"tern, v. t. To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away. [R.] --Chesterfield.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Slut, drab, draggletail, slovenly woman. II. a. Slovenly, slatternly, sluttish.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A woman sluttishly negligent in her dress.

Moby Thesaurus

baggage, bimbo, blowsy, crone, dowdy, drab, draggletailed, fallen woman, frowsy, frump, gammer, hag, harlot, hog, hooker, hussy, hustler, jade, litterbug, loose woman, pig, pro, prostitute, schlep, schlump, slob, sloven, slut, sordid, streetwalker, strumpet, swine, tart, traipse, tramp, trollop, trull, wanton, wench, whore, witch