Reverse Dictionary: SLOVEN

ADJECTIVES
► BLOWZY red-faced, untidy, dishevelled, slovenly → 1790 Eng. dial.
► BUNGERLY unworkmanlike, bungling, clumsy, awkward, slovenly → 1580 obs.
► CLATTY slovenly, mussy → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► DAGGY of clothes, appearance, etc.: dirty; filthy; slovenly; messy; unkempt; unpleasant → 1967 Aust. sl.
► DALLISH slovenly → 1825 Sc.
► DAWDRY slovenly, untidy → 1835 Sc.
► DAWLIE slow; slovenly → 1832 Sc.
► DRIGGLE-DRAGGLE slatternly, slovenly→ 1611 obs. exc. dial.
► DUTCHY slovenly → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► FLOWSY untidy, unkempt, slovenly → 1950 Amer. dial.
► GROBIAN slovenly, ill-bred, rude, coarse → 1654
► GRUGSY dirty, coarse-looking, slovenly; generally applied to an untidy woman → 1856 Sc.
► HAGEGY untidy, slovenly; loose → 1867 Eng. dial.
► HAGGAGING untidy, slovenly; loose → 1876 Eng. dial.
► HAINGLE slovenly, careless → 1825 Sc.
► HAIRY unkempt, untidy, rough, slovenly → 1956 Sc.
► HAISTERIN’ careless, slovenly → 1825 Sc.
► HAIVELESS shiftless, incapable, careless, extravagant, slovenly in habit, ill-mannered; unrefined → 1866 Sc.
► HARUM untidy, slovenly → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HASHY slovenly, careless, destructive → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► HASKY coarse, dirty, slovenly → 1808 Sc.
► HAUCHLIN slovenly → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► HAVELESS without resources, shiftless, helpless; careless, slovenly → 1868 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HOGRY-MOGRY disorderly, in a confused state; untidy, slovenly → 1869 Sc.
► HUDDROUN slovenly → 1513 Sc. obs.
► HUGGRY-MUGGRY in a confused state, disorderly, untidy, slovenly → 19C Sc.
► ILL-KEPT slovenly; careless → 1966 Amer. dial.
► KABA-KABA of people: slovenly, ill-kempt, boorish-looking → 20C W. Indies sl.
► LALLOPY lounging, idle, and slovenly in gait or habit → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LOOSE-TWISTED slovenly in dress, work, or gait → 19C Eng. dial.
► MAWKINLY slovenly, dirty → 1857 Eng. dial.
► OZELLY slovenly, unkempt → 19C Sc.
► PAWTY slovenly → 1903 Eng. dial.   (Bk.)
► RAFFELLY unkempt, slovenly → 1967 Sc.
► SAMMY untidy in dress; slovenly in gait → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAMBLING clumsily or carelessly executed, slipshod, slovenly; makeshift; also, of a person: blundering, bungling → 1589
► SLACKER THAN DISHWATER untidy, dirty, slovenly → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SLAMMERKIN untidy, slovenly → 1794 chiefly Eng. dial.
► SLAMMOCKY ► SLAWMECKY ► SLOMMACHY ► SLOMMACKY ► SLUMMACKY ► SLUMMOCKY ► SLUMMUCKY slovenly, untidy; careless, sloppy → 1855 colloq. & Eng. dial.
► SLEATHY slovenly, careless → 1649
► SLIPPETTY-SLOPPETTY untidy, slovenly, slatternly → 1892 Eng. dial.
► SLUMMY slovenly, careless → L19
► SLUTTY dirty, slovenly → LME
► SOPPY sloppy, slovenly → 1899
► STRINGY slovenly → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► TACKEY ► TACKY of clothing or appearance: unfashionable, dowdy; untidy, slovenly, shabby; gaudy, tawdry → 1862 Amer. sl.
► TALLOCKING idle, good-for-nothing; slovenly, untidy → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TANTAWDHERLY tawdry, slovenly → 1889 Eng. dial.
► TATSHIE dressed in a slovenly manner → 1905 Sc. obs. (Bk.)
► TAUPIE ► TAUPY ► TAWPIE ► TAWPY foolish, awkward, slovenly, ill-conditioned; tawdry → 1823 Sc.
► UDDER-MUCKING untidy, slovenly, dirty, muddling → 1896 Eng. dial.
► WALLOPING slatternly, slovenly → 1790 Eng. dial.

ADVERBS
► DAWDERLY slovenly, loosely, out of shape → 1873 Eng. dial.
► DRIGGLE-DRAGGLE in a slovenly, slatternly manner: applied especially to women’s dress → 1888 Eng. dial.
► HASHLY in a slovenly manner → 1721 Sc.

NOUNS
► CAB anything slovenly or untidy → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HASHINESS carelessness in dress, slovenliness → 1899 Sc.
► SKANK a slovenly style of dress, possibly imitative of dishevelled heroin addicts → 1990s Amer. teen sl.
► SLAP-DASHERY carelessness, slovenliness → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SLIPSLOPPINESS carelessness, slovenliness → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SLOP-DASHERY carelessness, slovenliness → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SLOPPINESS carelessness, slovenliness → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► UNPURPOSENESS slovenliness → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► ABLACH an insignificant or slovenly person → 1788 Sc.
► ALLEY BAT a promiscuous, careless, or slovenly woman; an immoral woman; sometimes used as a general term of abuse → 1968 Amer. dial.
► ASPILL a sloven; a clownish-mannered person; a silly fellow → 1824 Eng. dial.
► BANYEL a slovenly, idle fellow → 1825 Sc.
► BEAST a homely, unattractive, ugly, or slovenly woman, esp. if sexually passionate or promiscuous → 1946 US sl., chiefly college usage
► BESOM ► BEZOM a term of reproach or contempt applied to a woman, esp. a woman of loose or slovenly habits → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BESOMER a person, of either sex, of loose and slovenly habits → 1891 Eng. dial.
► BESSYBAB ► BESSYBABS a fantastically dressed female, as a mummer at Christmas; a slovenly, but gaily-attired woman → Bk1873 Eng. dial.
► BLUTTER a dirty, clumsy, untidy, or slovenly person → 1776 Sc.
► BOBBLE a slovenly fellow → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CAB a slovenly, untidy person → 1880 Eng. dial.  (Bk.)
► CAGMAG a plain or slovenly woman → L18 sl.
► CAVALAKER a slovenly, untidy person → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CLART a slovenly person; a slatternly woman → E19 Eng. dial.
► CLAT a slovenly, untidy person → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
► CRUD a habitually dirty or slovenly person → 1940 orig. & chiefly US Army sl.
► CRUMB a dirty, slovenly, repulsive person; an unpleasant or despicable person → 1918 sl., orig. US
► DAG an untidy, slovenly person → 20C Aust. sl.
► DALL a sloven → 1825 Sc. obs.
► DALLACKS a dirty, slovenly person; a smart, overdressed person → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DAWKIN a slatternly woman; one who is dirty and tawdry in her dress; a sloven, a slut → 1674 Eng. dial.
► DILLY-DAW one who is both slovenly and slow → 1814 Sc. obs.
► DOSSY a slovenly woman, a slattern → 1888 Eng. dial.
► DOXY a slovenly woman → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► DRIGGLE-DRAGGLE a slovenly, untidy woman; a slut, a drab → 1588 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► DROSSEL a dirty girl or woman; an idle wench; a sloven, a slattern, a slut → 1581 obs.
► ELT a stout, awkwardly-built woman; a slovenly female → 1907 Sc.
► ESPILL a sloven; a clownish-mannered person; a silly fellow → 1824 Eng. dial.
► FAW a slovenly woman; a term of abuse → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FLABERGUDGION ► FLABERGULLION a dirty, mean fellow; a worthless, slovenly fellow; a base, foul, nasty wretch; a scoundrel → 1611 obs.
► FLOP a fat, ungainly, or slovenly person, esp. a woman → 1936 Amer. dial.
► FLOPPY a fat, ungainly, or slovenly person, esp. a woman → 1936 Amer. dial.
► FUSTILARIAN a woman of gross or corpulent habit; a fat, slovenly woman → 1600 obs.
► FUSTILUGS a gross, fat, unwieldy person, especially a woman; a slovenly woman that smells rank; a person with a sour, forbidding aspect; a dirty child; a term of abuse→ 1607 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GAD an idle or slovenly woman; a loose woman; a slattern → 1859 obs. (Bk.)
► GADDER an idle or slovenly woman; a loose woman; a slattern → 1632 obs.
► GAUBSHITE an awkward, ill-kept, dirty person; a filthy, slovenly man; a boor, a fool, a blockhead → 1887 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GLOID a slovenly, wasteful person → 1954 Sc.
► GROBIAN a slovenly, ill-bred or coarse fellow; a rude lout, a boor → 1609
► GRUB a person of slovenly attire and unpleasant manners → 1653
► GRUNGE a slovenly or offensive person; an obnoxious person; someone who is sloppy in dress  → 1965 Amer. student sl.
► HABBLE a lout, a coarse or uncouth person; one who is awkward, slow-moving, or slovenly in dress, appearance or habits → 1821 Sc.
► HACHEL a sloven; a dirty, untidy person → 1825 Sc. (Bk.)
► HACKSLAVER a dirty, slovenly fellow; an idle, dissolute, good-for-nothing man; a disgusting and silly fellow → 1790 Eng. dial.
► HAGGAGE a term of reproach for a woman; an untidy, slatternly, or slovenly woman → 1746 Eng. dial.
► HAGMAHUSH an awkward sloven → 1801 Sc.
► HAG-MALL a sloven, a slattern → 1872 Eng. dial.
► HAINGLE an idle, loutish fellow; a lazy, slovenly good-for-nothing → 1791 Sc.
► HAIP ► HAIPS a sloven → 1806 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HAISTER a slovenly woman, a trollop → 1825 Sc.
► HAIVEREL ► HAVEREL an ungainly person; a lounger, a lazy person; a sloven → 1721 Sc.
► HALLION a clown; a clumsy fellow; a good-for-nothing idle scamp; a sloven; a rascal → 1789 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HANZIEL an idle, loutish fellow; a lazy, slovenly good-for-nothing → 1791 Sc.
► HASH a wasteful, slovenly person; one who talks nonsense; a fool; a scamp; also, a term of endearment for a boy → 1685 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HASPAL ► HASPILL a sloven; a clownish-mannered person; a silly fellow → 1824 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HASTREL a slovenly woman, a trollop → 1825 Sc.
► HAYBAG a slovenly woman; a female hobo or camp follower → 1877 Amer. dial., derogatory
► HEAP a term of reproach applied to a slovenly woman → 1810 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HOG a slovenly person; a grasping person → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► HUGGERMAGRILLIAN a coarse, slovenly woman → 19C Sc.
► HULLION a clown; a clumsy fellow; a good-for-nothing idle scamp; a sloven; a rascal → 1789 Sc. & Ireland
► JACK A LENT ► JACK O’ LENT a dirty, slovenly person → 1886 Eng. dial.
► JACK NASTY a term of contempt for a sneak or a sloven → 1857
► LABBER a person whose clothing is wet and draggled; a ‘draggle-tail’ → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LADRONE ► LIDDERON ► LIDRONE a lazy, idle person; a sloven, a drab; a dirty, untidy woman or girl, used as a term of contempt → 1825 Sc.
► LAITHRON a lazy, idle person; a sloven, a drab; a dirty, untidy woman or girl, used as a term of contempt → 1832 Sc.
► MAALIN ► MAILIN an untidy, slovenly girl or woman → 1893 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MANCH a sloven, a slut → 1897 Eng. dial.
► MAUNSEL ► MAUNSELL ► MAUNSIL ► MAUNSILL a fat, dirty, slovenly woman → 1876 Eng. dial.
► MAWSIE a stout person, esp. a woman; a stupid, slovenly, worthless woman → 1790 Sc.
► MIDDEN a term of contempt for a woman; a dirty, slovenly woman → 1827 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MOGER a slovenly, clumsy person → 1919 Sc.
► MOLLY PUTZ a careless, slovenly woman; a careless housewife → 1950 Amer. dial.
► MOOZLES a slow, stupid, slovenly person → 1847 Eng. dial.
► MOPSEY ► MOPSIE ► MOPSY a dirty, slatternly, or untidy woman; a sloven; a dowdy or homely woman → 1699 sl. & Eng. dial. rare
► MORCAN ► MORGIN ► MORKIN a dirty, lazy, slovenly woman → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOSS-WETHER a slovenly or unkempt man → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOVING HEAP OF MUCK a term of reproach applied to a slovenly woman → 1843 Eng. dial. 
► MRS. MCCLARTY a dirty, slovenly housewife → 1845 Sc.
► MUCK-HEAP a filthy, slovenly man or woman → 19C Brit. sl.
► NO-COUNT a careless, slovenly woman → 1965 Amer. dial.
► OLD FART a careless, slovenly woman → 1965 Amer. dial.
► OLD POT a careless, slovenly woman → 1968 Amer. dial.
► PIG any dirty or slovenly person → 20C US colloq.
► POT-WALLOPER a slovenly person → 1873 US sl.
► PREKE ► PREKY a good-for-nothing; an ill-kempt, dirty, slovenly man → 1940 W. Indies
► RAFF a slovenly, dirty fellow → 1895 Aust. criminals’ sl. (Bk.)
► RAG BAG a general term, the implication is of unkempt slovenliness → 1920s sl., derogatory
► RAG DOLL a slovenly woman → c1862 sl.
► RUTTER a lazy, slovenly, ignorant person → 1968 Amer. dial.
► SCASH n untidy or slovenly piece of dress; an untidy person, a sloven → 1895 Sc. obs.
► SCLEURACH a person untidy in dress and gait; a sloven, a slattern → c1850 Sc.
► SHAMMOCK a lazy, slovenly person ..E18 chiefly Eng. dial.
► SLACK a slovenly person → 1950s W. Indies sl.
► SLACK ALICE a slovenly woman → 2002 Eng. sl.
► SLAMMERKIN a dirty, slovenly female; a slattern, a slut → 1785 chiefly Eng. dial.
► SLOB a dirty, slovenly, or untidy person; also implies fatness; a fat person → 1861 sl.
► SLODGE a sloven, a slattern → 1898 Sc.
► SLUBBERDEGULLION a dirty, mean fellow; a worthless, slovenly fellow; a base, foul, nasty wretch → a1616
► SLUMMOCK a dirty, untidy, or slovenly person → M19 chiefly Eng. dial. & colloq.
► SLUMP a fat, slovenly person; a slob → 1906 sl.
► SLUSH a slovenly or dirty person → E19 Eng. dial.
► SLUT a women of slovenly habits or appearance → ME derogatory
► SOSS a sloven, a slut, a slattern → 1611
► SOW a fat, clumsy, or slovenly woman → 1508
► STREEL a slattern; a slovenly woman → 19C US colloq.
► TAG-RAG a pitiful, ragged fellow; a slovenly, lazy or dirty fellow; a mean person; a vagabond → 1609
► TAISTREL ► TAISTRILL a gawky, slovenly, or unmethodical person; often applied to a girl who tears her clothes from carelessness → 1825 Sc.
► TAPPY a foolish, giddy, awkward, idle, or slovenly girl → 1824 Sc.
► TARGEL ► TARGILL ► TARGLE a despicable person; usually applied to a dirty, slovenly woman → 1888 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TARMANACK a slovenly person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TASHEL ► TASSEL a good-for-nothing man or woman; a drunkard; a slovenly woman; a troublesome child → 1790 Eng. dial.
► TASHIE ► TATSHIE a ragged, down-at-heel person; a sloven → 1972 Sc. 
► TAUPIE ► TAWPIE a foolish, giddy, scatterbrained, untidy, awkward, or careless person; an idle or slovenly person; generally applied to young women → 1728 Sc. 
► TAW-BESS a slatternly or slovenly woman → 1790 Eng. dial. obs.
► TRYPAL a tall, lanky, or slovenly person → 1788 Sc.
► TULGY a slovenly woman → 1882 Eng. dial.  (Bk.)
► WALIDRAG ► WALLIDRAG ► WALLYDRAG a feeble, ill-grown person or animal; a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman → 1508 Sc.
► WALLIDRAGGLE;  WALLY-DRAGGLE a feeble, ill-grown person; a slovenly woman; an inactive person → 1754 Sc.
► WALLIE-TRAGLE a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman; a wastrel; a wanderer → 1790 Sc.
► WALLOCH-GOUL a female of slovenly appearance → 1825 Sc. (Bk.)
► WALLY-DRAIGLE a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman; a wastrel; a wanderer → 1790 Sc.
► WALLY-DREG a worthless, slovenly person, esp. a woman; a wastrel; a wanderer → 1790 Sc.
► WARB ► WAUB ► WORB a disreputable or slovenly person → 1933 Aust. sl.
► WOOKIE a hairy or slovenly person → 2006 Amer. students’ sl.  (Bk.)
► WORB a disreputable or slovenly person → 1933 Aust. sl.
► YAD ► YADE ► YAWD a term of contempt for a woman, often one of slovenly or dissolute habits, or of a vicious nature → 1787 Sc.
► ZALAVACHE a sloven or slut → 1867 Ireland (Bk.)
► ZLOUCH a slovenly, ungenteel man → 1737 sl. (Bk.)
► ZOUCH a slovenly, ungenteel man; one who walks with a slouch; a churl → 1728 sl.
► ZOUCHER an objectionable, unpleasant person; an unmannerly fellow; a churl; a slovenly fellow → 1889 sl. (Bk.)

VERBS
► DAIDLE to idle, to trifle, to waste time; to potter about; to move or act slowly or in a slovenly manner; to saunter; to loiter → 1756 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GO TO THE BAD to deteriorate morally or physically; to become slovenly, careless, or immoral → c1960 Amer. dial.
► HAISTER ► HASTER ► HAYSTER to speak or act without premeditation; to do anything in a careless, slovenly manner → 1805 Sc.
► JAMMIE to do anything in a slovenly manner → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MAB to dress carelessly or negligently; to be slatternly or slovenly → 1691 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► MABBLE to dress slovenly → 19C obs.
► MULLOCK OVER to do something in a slovenly way → 1945 Aust. sl.
► PIG IT to live in an untidy or slovenly fashion; to live in cheap or inferior accommodation; to accept a standard of living lower than that to which one is accustomed → 1819
► SCASH to be slovenly in dress, to wear one’s clothes in a careless manner → 1825 Sc.
► SLOB ► SLOB OUT to behave in a lazy, slovenly manner → 1999 UK sl.
► WALGAN to go about in an idle, slovenly manner, dressing in too large, slatternly clothing → 1866 Sc.