(now, rare, historical) A loose women's morning gown, popular in the eighteenth century.
(now, rare, historical) A loose women's morning gown, popular in the eighteenth century.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, regional) A slattern or awkward person.
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.
One who, or that which, slams.
(countable, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A woman of loose morals.
(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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