slummockyadj.

Brit.

/ˈslʌməki/, U.S.

/ˈsləməki/, Australian English

/ˈslʌməki/, New Zealand English /ˈslʌməki/

Forms: 1800s slammocky, 1800s slommachy, 1800s– slummacky, 1800s– slummocky, 1900s– slommacky, 1900s– slummucky, 1900s– slawmecky (Newfoundland), 1900s– slawmeky (Newfoundland).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: slummock n., slummock v., -y suffix¹

Etymology: Probably partly (i) < slummock n. + -y suffix¹, and partly (ii) < slummock v. + -y suffix¹. Compare earlier slummocking adj., slammerkin adj.

colloquial and regional (esp. English regional, Australian, and New Zealand).

1. Slovenly, untidy; careless, sloppy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > careless, not thorough

overlyc1450

superficialc1456

sloven1532

sloven-like1569

perfunctory1592

slovenly1592

perfunctorious1599

cursory1601

cursorarya1616

slighty1619

cursitory1632

touch and go1682

passant1685

skimming1728

slapdashc1792

lax1812

slap-bang1815

slummocking1825

slobbery1832

percursory1837

slipshod1845

slip-string1854

slummocky1855

free and easy1864

unthorough1868

slurring1880

slummy1881

sploshy1881

skimmy1893

surfacy1975

drive-through1994

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [adjective]

untidya1375

unred1528

sluttish?1529

untrimmed?1529

untrick1570

untrim1570

shevelled1613

hirsute1621

incompta1628

messy1627

unneat1648

tawdry1672

slattern1680

bunting1759

untrig1821

sloggering1825

slummocking1825

scrambling1826

poucey1829

anyhow1831

mullocky1839

ragtail1846

mussy1859

slubbery1880

unshipshape1883

mussed1888

slummocky1898

ruggy1929

idle1956

1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. 30 Why, Massa, de common slommachy way people ab ob boiling it on de cob.

1898 Maitland (New S. Wales) Daily Mercury 6 July The bill does appear to be a very ‘slummocky’ piece of drafting.

1924 Waipa (N.Z.) Post 1 Mar. 4/4 The Borough Council is claiming damages from its engineer (who has been sacked) for slummicky work.

1948 Devon & Exeter Gaz. 23 July. 2/5 He usu'ly goes about a bit slammicky, but now he'd got on the same togs as he weared when he was married.

1966 Spectator 15 Apr. 280/1 Among his virtues is tidiness; he doesn't like things looking slummocky.

2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 12 July 55 A woman in a dressing gown—..a slummocky creature with a fag in her mouth.

2. Ungainly, awkward; characterized or marked by clumsy or careless movement (frequently used of a racehorse or its gait). Also of a person's body: soft and flabby; out of shape.Recorded earliest in the compound slammocky-as-to-figure adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily substance > flesh > [adjective] > flabby

flaggya1565

flappy1598

quaggy1611

flaccid1620

quagginga1627

pendulous1822

slummocky?1861

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward

stubblea1300

lubber?1515

awkward1530

unwieldy1530

lubberlike1572

unwieldsome1579

lubberly1580

looby1582

wieldy1588

clumsy1597

ungainly1611

unqueme1611

untowardly1611

clouter-likea1624

hip-shot1642

loobish1648

loobily1655

bumble-arsed1661

clouterly1675

lubbard1679

fumbling1681

sinistrousa1682

maladroit1685

shammockinga1704

ungain1710

splay-footed1716

gawky1759

hobbledehoyish1812

uncouthly1821

nunting1836

shammocky1841

numb1854

awkwardish1860

slummocky?1861

numb-footed1867

gawkish1876

flat-footed1899

brontosaurian1909

shamblya1937

slew-foot1945

ham-footed1960

klutzy1961

dorkus1979

?1861 E. C. Gaskell Let. 28 Feb. (1966) 643 A tall, gentlemanly, slammocky-as-to-figure man.

1865 Nelson (N.Z.) Examiner 16 Sept. 3/2 Their march..was anything but what a ‘Coldstream’ would admire—it was irregular and ‘slommicky’.

1891 Tasmanian 5 Dec. 5/4 Bischoff, a colt that..appeared literally as broad as he was long, and his slommocky gait was not the most assuring.

1904 J. Rhodes in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 498/2 [West Yorkshire] He's nobbut a slammocky way o' waukin.

1924 Sun (Sydney) 24 Feb. 2/8 Mercian King, who made a fair fight to-day, is a tremendously big and rather slummocky colt.

1932 Smith's Weekly (Sydney) 26 Nov. 4/4 A slummocky, ungainly fellow in the ring, but his crudities conceal a certain glove spitefulness.

1973 P. White Eye of Storm viii. 376 Her hands had been coarsened by menial grind, her body made slommacky by childbearing.

1988 S. Townsend Rebuilding Coventry xlv. 151 She turned her slummocky body round to face her son.

Derivatives

ˈslummockiness n.

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

1877 Nelson (N.Z.) Evening Mail 10 July The predominant features of Wellington ‘plagues’ are independence, ‘slummockiness’, impudence, and laziness.

1947 M. Penn Manch. Fourteen Miles iii. 34 Grandma Winstanley was..a slattern... Lizzie couldn't abide her slummockiness.

1974 H. R. F. Keating Underside xix. 187 Young Billy..lost..the doom-laden slummockiness of his bohemian days and became..a paragon of punctuality and neatness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	slummocky
释义	slummockyadj. Brit. /ˈslʌməki/, U.S. /ˈsləməki/, Australian English /ˈslʌməki/, New Zealand English /ˈslʌməki/ Forms: 1800s slammocky, 1800s slommachy, 1800s– slummacky, 1800s– slummocky, 1900s– slommacky, 1900s– slummucky, 1900s– slawmecky (Newfoundland), 1900s– slawmeky (Newfoundland). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: slummock n., slummock v., -y suffix¹ Etymology: Probably partly (i) < slummock n. + -y suffix¹, and partly (ii) < slummock v. + -y suffix¹. Compare earlier slummocking adj., slammerkin adj. colloquial and regional (esp. English regional, Australian, and New Zealand). 1. Slovenly, untidy; careless, sloppy. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > careless, not thorough overlyc1450 superficialc1456 sloven1532 sloven-like1569 perfunctory1592 slovenly1592 perfunctorious1599 cursory1601 cursorarya1616 slighty1619 cursitory1632 touch and go1682 passant1685 skimming1728 slapdashc1792 lax1812 slap-bang1815 slummocking1825 slobbery1832 percursory1837 slipshod1845 slip-string1854 slummocky1855 free and easy1864 unthorough1868 slurring1880 slummy1881 sploshy1881 skimmy1893 surfacy1975 drive-through1994 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [adjective] untidya1375 unred1528 sluttish?1529 untrimmed?1529 untrick1570 untrim1570 shevelled1613 hirsute1621 incompta1628 messy1627 unneat1648 tawdry1672 slattern1680 bunting1759 untrig1821 sloggering1825 slummocking1825 scrambling1826 poucey1829 anyhow1831 mullocky1839 ragtail1846 mussy1859 slubbery1880 unshipshape1883 mussed1888 slummocky1898 ruggy1929 idle1956 1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. 30 Why, Massa, de common slommachy way people ab ob boiling it on de cob. 1898 Maitland (New S. Wales) Daily Mercury 6 July The bill does appear to be a very ‘slummocky’ piece of drafting. 1924 Waipa (N.Z.) Post 1 Mar. 4/4 The Borough Council is claiming damages from its engineer (who has been sacked) for slummicky work. 1948 Devon & Exeter Gaz. 23 July. 2/5 He usu'ly goes about a bit slammicky, but now he'd got on the same togs as he weared when he was married. 1966 Spectator 15 Apr. 280/1 Among his virtues is tidiness; he doesn't like things looking slummocky. 2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 12 July 55 A woman in a dressing gown—..a slummocky creature with a fag in her mouth. 2. Ungainly, awkward; characterized or marked by clumsy or careless movement (frequently used of a racehorse or its gait). Also of a person's body: soft and flabby; out of shape.Recorded earliest in the compound slammocky-as-to-figure adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily substance > flesh > [adjective] > flabby flaggya1565 flappy1598 quaggy1611 flaccid1620 quagginga1627 pendulous1822 slummocky?1861 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward stubblea1300 lubber?1515 awkward1530 unwieldy1530 lubberlike1572 unwieldsome1579 lubberly1580 looby1582 wieldy1588 clumsy1597 ungainly1611 unqueme1611 untowardly1611 clouter-likea1624 hip-shot1642 loobish1648 loobily1655 bumble-arsed1661 clouterly1675 lubbard1679 fumbling1681 sinistrousa1682 maladroit1685 shammockinga1704 ungain1710 splay-footed1716 gawky1759 hobbledehoyish1812 uncouthly1821 nunting1836 shammocky1841 numb1854 awkwardish1860 slummocky?1861 numb-footed1867 gawkish1876 flat-footed1899 brontosaurian1909 shamblya1937 slew-foot1945 ham-footed1960 klutzy1961 dorkus1979 ?1861 E. C. Gaskell Let. 28 Feb. (1966) 643 A tall, gentlemanly, slammocky-as-to-figure man. 1865 Nelson (N.Z.) Examiner 16 Sept. 3/2 Their march..was anything but what a ‘Coldstream’ would admire—it was irregular and ‘slommicky’. 1891 Tasmanian 5 Dec. 5/4 Bischoff, a colt that..appeared literally as broad as he was long, and his slommocky gait was not the most assuring. 1904 J. Rhodes in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 498/2 [West Yorkshire] He's nobbut a slammocky way o' waukin. 1924 Sun (Sydney) 24 Feb. 2/8 Mercian King, who made a fair fight to-day, is a tremendously big and rather slummocky colt. 1932 Smith's Weekly (Sydney) 26 Nov. 4/4 A slummocky, ungainly fellow in the ring, but his crudities conceal a certain glove spitefulness. 1973 P. White Eye of Storm viii. 376 Her hands had been coarsened by menial grind, her body made slommacky by childbearing. 1988 S. Townsend Rebuilding Coventry xlv. 151 She turned her slummocky body round to face her son. Derivatives ˈslummockiness n. 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 1877 Nelson (N.Z.) Evening Mail 10 July The predominant features of Wellington ‘plagues’ are independence, ‘slummockiness’, impudence, and laziness. 1947 M. Penn Manch. Fourteen Miles iii. 34 Grandma Winstanley was..a slattern... Lizzie couldn't abide her slummockiness. 1974 H. R. F. Keating Underside xix. 187 Young Billy..lost..the doom-laden slummockiness of his bohemian days and became..a paragon of punctuality and neatness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1855
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