Reverse Dictionary: SLATTERN

SLATTERN, SLATTERNLY

ADJECTIVES
 BAGGY of a woman: slatternly, unattractive …1960s US sl.
– DAGGED-SKIRTED wet or mud-bespattered; slatternly …1740 Eng. dial.
– DAGGLE-TAILED having the skirts splashed by being trailed over wet ground; untidy, slatternly …1573 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 DRABBISH partaking of the qualities of a drab; slatternly …1566
– DRIGGLE-DRAGGLE slatternly, slovenly…1611 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
FAW-LIKE gypsy-like, untidy, slatternly … Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FROWZY having a dirty, untidy, soiled, neglected appearance, as unkempt hair, etc.; dingy, rusty, slatternly, unkempt … 1710
– SLIPPETTY-SLOPPETTY untidy, slovenly, slatternly …1892 Eng. dial.
– LAITCHETY idle, careless, slatternly …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– TANGLING untidy, slatternly; lounging, loitering; esp. used of a woman …1790 Eng. dial.
– TANGLY untidy, slatternly; lounging, loitering; esp. used of a woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UNHEPPEN slatternly, untidy; unbecoming …1790 Eng. dial.
– WALLOPING slatternly, slovenly …1790 Eng. dial.


ADVERBS
– DRIGGLE-DRAGGLE in a slovenly, slatternly manner: applied especially to women’s dress …1888 Eng. dial.


NOUNS, PERSON
– ASHYPET an idle or slatternly woman …1870 Sc. & Ireland
– ASSIE-PET an idle slattern …Bk1911 Sc.
– ASSIEPOD;  ASSIPOD;  ASSYPOD a dirty, slatternly woman …1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ASSYPET an idle or slatternly woman; a dirty little creature …1870 Sc. & Ireland
– BESSY-FRUGGAM a female of slatternly appearance; a man dressed in woman’s attire for mumming or ‘guising’ …Bk1849 Eng. dial.
– BLOWSABELLA a woman whose hair is dishevelled, and hanging about her face; a slattern; a vulgar, self-assertive woman, usually stout …1883 theatrical sl.
– CLAMMUX a worthless slattern …19C Eng. dial.
– CLART a slovenly person; a slatternly woman …E19 Eng. dial.
– CLARTY-PAPS a filthy, slatternly woman or wife …19C Eng. dial.
 CURTAL a drab; a nasty slattern …1611 obs.
– DAFFOCK a slattern …1691 Eng. dial.
– DAGGED-ASS a slatternly woman …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAGGLE-TAIL a person, esp. a woman, whose garments are bemired by being trailed over wet ground; an untidy woman, a slut, a slattern …1577-87 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– DAGG-TAIL a slattern, a slut …1854 Eng. dial.
– DANGUS a slattern …19C Eng. dial. & colloq.
– DAW an untidy woman or housewife, a slut, a slattern …1500-20 Sc.
– DAWGOS a dirty, slatternly woman …1790 Eng. dial. obs.
– DAWKIN a slatternly woman; one who is dirty and tawdry in her dress; a sloven, a slut …1674 Eng. dial.
– DAWKS a slattern …1790 Eng. dial.
– DAWPS a slattern; a dirty, untidy woman …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DISH-CLOUT a dirty slattern …L18 sl.
– DOSSY a slovenly woman, a slattern …1888 Eng. dial.
– DOZZLE an oddly-dressed, tawdry woman; a slattern …1855 Eng. dial.
 DRAB a dirty and untidy woman; a slut, a slattern …1518
 DRABBLE-TAIL a slattern …a1825
– DROSSEL a dirty girl or woman; an idle wench; a sloven, a slattern, a slut …1581 obs.
– FACKET a term of contempt or reproach applied to women and children; a slattern; a worthless woman …19C Eng. dial.
– FAGGOT a term of contempt or reproach applied to women and children; a slattern, a worthless woman …1591
– FLING-DUST a street-walker; a slattern …E17 sl.
– FLING-STINK a street-walker; a slattern …E17 sl.
– FLOMMAX a slattern …19C Brit.
– FRUMP an old woman with one or more of the following qualities: primness, wrinkles, slatternliness, gossipiness, grouchiness, or a holier-than-thou attitude …19C
– GAD an idle or slovenly woman; a loose woman; a slattern …Bk1859 obs.
– GADDER an idle or slovenly woman; a loose woman; a slattern …1632 obs.
– GAMMEL a slut, a slattern …Bk1877 Eng. dial.
– GANNEL a slut; a slattern …Bk1877 Eng. dial.
– GILLIVER a slatternly woman; a slovenly untidy walker …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– HAGGAGE a term of reproach for a woman; an untidy, slatternly, or slovenly woman …1746 Eng. dial.
– HAG-MALL a sloven, a slattern …1872 Eng. dial.
– HARL;  HARLE a slattern; a big, untidy, coarse, cross-grained person …1824 Sc.
– HAVEREL;  HAVERIL an ignorant man; a slatternly woman … 20C Irish sl.
– HOMMOCKS an awkward, clumsy person; a tall, slatternly or romping girl …B1900 Eng. dial.
– IDLE TAWPIE a slattern …19C Sc.
– LAIDRON a term of abuse for a lazy, loutish person; a loafer; a slattern, a drab …1718 Sc. obs.
– LALLOP a lazy, lounging person; an idler; an awkward or slatternly girl …1864 Eng. dial.
– LALLOPS a lazy, lounging person; an idler; an awkward or slatternly girl …1864 Eng. dial.
– LETHRON a term of abuse for a lazy, loutish person; a loafer; a slattern, a drab …1718 Sc. obs.
– MAB a harlot, a prostitute, a woman of loose character; a slattern  …1557 obs.
– MABBLE;  MABLE a slattern …Bk1908 obs.
– MALKIN an untidy female, esp. a servant or country wench; a slut, a slattern; occasionally, a lewd woman …1586 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MANKS a slattern …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MAWKIN an untidy female, esp. a servant or country wench; a slut, a slattern; occasionally, a lewd woman …1586 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MAWKS a foolish, slatternly woman; an overgrown, clumsy girl …1721 Eng. dial.
– MESS a slattern …1790 Eng. dial.
– MOB;  MOBB a wench; a slattern; a promiscuous woman; a strumpet; a prostitute …1650 obs.
– MOCKING a dirty, lazy woman; a slattern …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOEKIN a lazy, dirty woman, a slattern …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOGGIE;  MOGGY originally: a girl, a young woman; later, an untidily dressed woman; a slattern …1648 orig. Sc. & Eng. dial., rare
– MOIKIN a lazy, untidy woman; a slattern …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOIL a slattern, a dirty creature …1790 Eng. dial.
– MOLL a slattern …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOLLISHER a slattern …1822 UK sl.
– MOLLY a girl, a woman, esp. a lower-class one; a slattern; a prostitute …1706 now chiefly Irish English
– MOLLY-MANKS a slattern …Bk1880 obs.
– MOLLY-MAWKS a dirty, slatternly woman …Bk1896 Eng. dial.
– MOPSY a dirty, slatternly, or untidy woman; a sloven; a dowdy or homely woman …1699 sl. & Eng. dial. rare
– MOULDY-PUDDING a slattern …Bk1852 Eng. dial.
– MOX an untidy, slatternly woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MUCK-SUCKLE a filthy, dirty, slatternly, or very untidy woman …c1860 Brit. colloq.
– OBJECT a slatternly or ill-dressed person …Bk1877 Eng. dial.
– QUEER DOXY a slatternly woman …L17 UK criminals’ sl.
– RAG BAG a sloppily dressed woman; a slattern; an untidy or shabbily dressed person …1888 UK sl.
– RAG DOLL a sloppily dressed woman; a slattern …c1862 sl.
– RUBBACROCK a dirty, filthy slattern, that is as black as if she were continually rubbing herself against a boiler or kettle …1746 Eng. dial.
– SCLAFF an untidy, slatternly person …c1850 Sc.
– SCLEURACH a person untidy in dress and gait; a sloven, a slattern …c1850 Sc.
– SCLIFF;  SKLIFF an untidy, slatternly person …Bk1904 Sc.
– SLAMMERKIN a dirty, slovenly female; a slattern, a slut …1785 chiefly Eng. dial.
– SLODGE a sloven, a slattern …1898 Sc.
​- SLOMMOCKS a slattern …19C Eng. dial.
 SLURRUP a shiftless, untidy woman; a slattern …1916 Amer dial.
– STREEL a slattern; a slovenly woman …19C US colloq.
– SUKEY-TAWDRY a slatternly female in fine tawdry …Bk1904 sl.
– TAINT a very dirty slattern …Bk1830 Eng. dial.
– TAISTREL;  TAISTRIL;  TAISTRILL a gawky, slovenly, or unmethodical person; often applied to a girl who tears her clothes from carelessness; a light, wanton, dirty, or careless woman; an idle slattern …Bk1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TALLACK;  TALLOCK a good-for-nothing, idle person; a ragamuffin; a slatternly woman …1889 Eng. dial.
– TALLOCKER a good-for-nothing, idle person; a ragamuffin; a slatternly woman …1889 Eng. dial.
– TANGLE a thriftless, slatternly person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TANGLES a thriftless, slatternly person …Bk1883 Eng. dial. 
– TAT;  TATT a shabby person; a slattern…1936 sl.
– TAW-BESS a slatternly woman …1790 Eng. dial. obs.
– TIDDY-DOLL a spoiled, babyish, dressed-up girl or woman; a slattern, a woman who is not domesticated …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TRAMSACH a big, tall, ungainly person; a rough, untidy person; a slattern …1866 Sc.
– VAGGOT a ‘faggot’; a term of contempt applied to women and children; a slattern, a worthless or good-for-nothing woman …Bk1888 Eng. dial.
– WALLY DRAGGLE TAIL a slattern …1898 Sc. 


VERBS
– MAB to dress carelessly or negligently; to be slatternly or slovenly …1691 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– WALGAN to go about in an idle, slovenly manner, dressing in too large, slatternly clothing …1866 Sc.
– WALLOP to flounder; to tumble over; to kick about; to move heavily; to waddle or bend in walking; to be slatternly …1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.