slammerkin adj.
of a woman, slovenly.
![]() | Works (1794) III 389: So slammakin, untidy, ragged, mean, Her garments all so shabby and unpinn’d. | ‘Pathetic Odes’|
![]() | ‘The Professor’ in Bentley’s Misc. Sept. 282: Did I give you money to buy clothes for this [...] and make love to that saucy, slammerkin, sentimental Miss Grampus? | |
![]() | Dict. of Provincialisms 156/1: Slammerkin [...] Untidy; slatternly. | |
![]() | Sixteen-String Jack 126: There’s frolicking Kate, and rollicking Bet, / And slammerkin Sall so tall. | |
![]() | My Secret Life (1966) I 197: I scarcely ever found her untidy, dirty, or slammerkin. |