单词 | slattering |
释义 | slatteringadj. Now rare (English regional (Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire) in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wet weather > [adjective] > wet (of weather, place, or time) > rainy rainyOE rainyOE rainingc1400 droppinga1415 pluvious?1440 rainful1484 weeping1600 droppy1635 slattering1648 dripping1699 drippy1818 softish1855 feechie1975 1648 W. Lilly Astrol. Prediction 27 The eighth, slattering, stormy Weather for the most part,..the Winde Northeast, and very cold. 1703 N. Blundell Diary 10 May (1968) I. 171 It was a wet slattering day & we had not much Sport. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 227/1 It's a strange slattering time for hay and clover. 2. Careless, slovenly; wasteful. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [adjective] sluttishc1405 sluttya1425 slut?a1513 drabbish1566 drabby1612 sordid1613 slithy1622 sleathy1652 slattering1673 slatternly1677 slattern1683 trapish1703 slammerkin1742 trolloping1770 unheppen1790 trollopy1800 slatternish1833 haveless1868 1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 13 A Dawgos or Dawkin: a dirty, slattering woman. a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 224 All persons who would not lead a loose and slattering life, but design..to prosecute an orderly course of action. 1838 D. B. Kelly Manor of Glenmore (1839) III. xxxiii. 129 She'd make the same quantity of kitchen, that in another house—one of your slattering establishments—..wouldn't do four men, she'd make that same do for well nigh a dozen, sir. 1889 in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Slattering, wasteful. 1903 J. P. Kirk in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 506/1 She hes sich poor slatterin ways. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasˈslattering ˈslattering n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > clattering clatteringc1400 clitter-clatter1535 clatter1578 reesle1608 slattering1661 clutter-clutter1691 cluttering1844 strepitation1913 1661 K. W. Confused Characters 4 The slattering of a cadent Brickbat. < adj.1648 as lemmas |
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