slattern

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slattern

    Hyphenation

    slat·tern

    Synonyms

    moggy

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    [ 'sla-t&rn ] (noun.) circa 1639. Dating from the seventeenth century: related to slattering, “slovenly”, from the dialectal verb slatter, “to slop, to spill”.The Concise Oxford English Dictionary
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