slammerkin
(now, rare, historical) A loose women's morning gown, popular in the eighteenth century.
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(now, rare, historical) A loose women's morning gown, popular in the eighteenth century.
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(colloquial, now, rare, UK, dialect) A slut; an untidy or slatternly woman.
: As for her other lover, Mr Ricketts, he very shortly after her premature death sought comfort for himself in the arms of a vulgar, huge, coarse Irish slammerkin, Miss Prendergast.
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(UK, regional) A slattern or awkward person.
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A British regional dialect word for a slattern — a slovenly, untidy woman — or more broadly for an awkward, lumbering person. The word has a disapproving edge and is dialectal rather than mainstream slang. Found in older English dialect literature from the Midlands and northern counties.
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One who, or that which, slams.
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(countable, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A woman of loose morals.