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ˈslummocky, a. dial. and colloq.
Also (rarely) slammocky, slommachy, slummacky, slummucky.
[Cf. slummock v., and see the Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Slammocky.]
Slovenly, untidy. Hence ˈslummockiness.
1861Mrs. Gaskell Let. 28 Feb. (1966) 643 A tall, gentlemanly, slammocky-as-to-figure man. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 120 This tidy, carefully minute way, so entirely different from the slummacky African methods of doing things. 1899― W. African Stud. i. 23 It had too its varying moods of tidiness, now neat and dandy coiled, now dishevelled and slummocky. 1914Kipling in Nash's Mag. June 278/1 The rough-ironed table-linen,..the slummocky set-out of victuals at meals. 1926W. de la Mare Connoisseur 65 A help from the village—precious little good she was. Slummocky—and stupid! 1947M. Penn Manchester Fourteen Miles iii. 34 Grandma Winstanley was..a slattern... Lizzie couldn't abide her slummockiness. 1953J. Cary Except the Lord xxxviii. 169 Girls after a few months service would return on holiday not only in smart clothes but with quite new scorn for what they called our slummucky ways. 1962J. Cannan All is Discovered ii. 29 ‘An attractive woman?’ ‘No, sir. A slummacky sort. More like a gyppo.’ 1973P. White Eye of Storm viii. 376 Her hands had been coarsened by menial grind, her body made slommacky by childbearing. 1974H. R. F. Keating Underside xix. 187 The doom⁓laden slummockiness of his bohemian days. |