SLATTERN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slattern mean? 

• SLATTERN (noun)
  The noun SLATTERN has 2 senses:

1. a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets

2. a dirty untidy woman

  Familiarity information: SLATTERN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLATTERN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

floozie; floozy; hooker; hustler; slattern; street girl; streetwalker

Hypernyms ("slattern" is a kind of...):

bawd; cocotte; cyprian; fancy woman; harlot; lady of pleasure; prostitute; sporting lady; tart; whore; woman of the street; working girl (a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money)

Derivation:

slatternly (characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A dirty untidy woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

slattern; slovenly woman; slut; trollop

Hypernyms ("slattern" is a kind of...):

pig; slob; sloven; slovenly person (a coarse obnoxious person)

Derivation:

slatternly (characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women)

 Context examples 

She might scruple to make use of the words, but she must and did feel that her mother was a partial, ill-judging parent, a dawdle, a slattern, who neither taught nor restrained her children, whose house was the scene of mismanagement and discomfort from beginning to end, and who had no talent, no conversation, no affection towards herself; no curiosity to know her better, no desire of her friendship, and no inclination for her company that could lessen her sense of such feelings.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)