单词 | slatternness |
释义 | slatternnessn. Now rare. Slatternliness. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun] > condition of sluttinessc1450 sluttishness?c1475 slutnessa1500 slovenry1542 slutterya1586 slovenliness1599 Grobianism1609 slovenness1616 slatternness1745 slatternliness1796 slummockiness1877 draggle-tailedness1889 Schlamperei1917 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator III. xvi. 192 To give the artful Step-Mother an Opportunity of accusing her of ill Housewifry and Slatterness. 1811 ‘A Lady of Distinction’ Mirror of Graces v. 65 Wishing to be thought superior to founding any regard on external ornament, they forget external decency; and by slatternness and affectation, render, what is called a learned woman, a kind of scare-crow to her own sex, and a laughing-stock to the other. 1880 Week (Brisbane) 28 Feb. 211/3 You cannot expect neatness and order in any house where the daughters see nothing but slatterness. 1921 W. J. Locke Mountebank x. 128 For all her domestic slatternness, the moment she emerged from private into professional life, her phlegmatic indolence was transformed into quick energy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1745 |
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