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单词 slatternly
释义
slatternslat‧tern /ˈslætən $ -ərn/ noun [countable] old-fashioned Word Origin
WORD ORIGINslattern
Origin:
1600-1700 Probably from German schlottern ‘to hang loosely’
Examples
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  • A slattern brought his own meal, a thickly spiced bowl of soup.
  • A slattern, evidently his wife, looked on fearfully.
  • Anyway, the stranger was about to leave when a slattern dropped a tankard.
  • Two days later I was in the taproom of Le Coq d'Or, the slattern beside me half drunk.
a dirty untidy woman – used to show disapprovalslatternly adjective
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