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单词 slattering
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slatteringadj.

Brit. /ˈslat(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈslædərɪŋ/
Forms: see slatter v.2 and -ing suffix2.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: slatter v.2, -ing suffix2.
Etymology: Apparently < slatter v.2 (although this is first attested later) + -ing suffix2. Compare slightly later slatternly adj. and slattern adj. Compare also earlier slattern n.
Now rare (English regional (Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire) in later use).
1. Wet; rainy. Obsolete.
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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.
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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).

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ˈslattering
ˈslattering n.
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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.
extracted from slatterv.3
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adj.1648
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