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单词 sleathy
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sleathyadj.

Forms: Also 1800s sleethy.
Origin: Perhaps a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse slœ́ða.
Etymology: ? < Old Norse slœ́ða to drag, trail (so Norwegian slöda; also, to work carelessly); compare Old Norse slóði (Norwegian slode) sloven, sluggard, whence perhaps north-eastern Scottish sleeth.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsleathy.
rare.
Slovenly, careless.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [adjective]
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sluttya1425
slut?a1513
drabbish1566
drabby1612
sordid1613
slithy1622
sleathy1652
slattering1673
slatternly1677
slattern1683
trapish1703
slammerkin1742
trolloping1770
unheppen1790
trollopy1800
slatternish1833
haveless1868
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved ix. 52 The combination of labourers and Poor people may very much prejudice, besides their slothfull and sleathy slubbering of it.
1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 508/2 He is a bit sleethy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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