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Meanings of slattern in English

Portuguese
piranha

A dirty untidy woman.

        piranha
        Portuguese
        prostituta
        Catalan
        pendó
        Spanish
        buscona

        A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets.

            prostituta
            Usage of slattern in English
            1
            They traveled silently past sleeping settlements of red brick and slattern wood.
            Winter’s Tale
            2
            While their home is resign'd to the thief and the slattern.
            The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12,...
            3
            The slattern chambermaid announced that a gentleman wished to see him.
            Bambi
            4
            You are a slattern and a jay-bird and a joy forever.
            The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations
            5
            His wife would not be an ignorant slattern, the victim of incompetent servants.
            The Foolish Virgin
            6
            A slattern advertises the ruling mood of hopelessness, carelessness, and lack of system.
            In Tune with the Infinite; or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Ple...
            7
            She will fall little by little until she degenerates into an ambitionless slattern.
            Pushing to the Front
            8
            I suppose you might catch Lioncroft's eye that way, slattern that you are.
            Too wicked to kiss
            9
            You must think me a slattern, Mr. Torridon, but I cannot help it.
            The King's Achievement
            10
            An' y'r frowsy dyed-haired slattern wife told us y' were away?
            The Freebooters of the Wilderness
            11
            Mother was a disreputable drunken slattern: a curse and disgrace to husband and family.
            In Darkest England, and the Way Out
            12
            He thought of Cronshaw bound to a vulgar slattern, and he shuddered with dismay.
            Of Human Bondage
            13
            He had married a woman-a thin-jawed, elderly slattern, whose sole beauty was her farm.
            Here are Ladies
            14
            You know you wouldn't like me to be a slattern.
            Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
            15
            Is the front appearance that of a dandy while the backyard looks like a slattern?
            Religious Education in the Family
            16
            His wife, for a wonder, was a slattern German, and she spoke English very imperfectly.
            Without a Home
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            Slattern through the time