10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLATTERNLY»
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Transactions of the Philological Society
(6) A person of slatternly habits ; commonly applied to females. SKLEUSH, aa.
and n. (1) to dash with a somewhat soft dash. (2) To fall with a somewhat soft fall.
(3) To walk with slatternly, trailing step. SKLEUSH, adv. (1) with violence. (2) With
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Philological Society (London), 1865
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The Dialect of Banffshire: With a Glossary of Words Not in ...
(6) A person of slatternly habits; commonly applied to females. SKLEUsr1, e.a.
and n. (1) to dash with a somewhat soft dash. (2) To fall with a somewhat soft fall.
(3) To walk with slatternly, trailing step. SK.LEUsIi, ado. (1) with violence. (2) With
...
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Barron's how to Prepare for the MAT, Miller Analogies Test
Infer the type of analogy. Example THRIFTY : (a. wasteful, b. economical, c.
cheerful, d. wealthy) :: SLATTERNLY : UNTIDY Suppose that you don't know
what the word slatternly means. You need not give up on the analogy either by
skipping it ...
Robert J. Sternberg, 2005
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Vocabulary Dictionary and Workbook: 2,856 Words You Must Know
slatternly (SLAT-әrn-lē) adj. A slattern is an untidy, dirty woman. People (or things
) that are slatternly are sloppy, untidy, dirty, etc. The word can also suggest
sordidness. After watching the show we agreed that “bag ladies” depicted in TV ...
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
Slatternly stresses notions of slovenliness, unkemptness, and sordidness <a
small,
slatternly looking craft, her hull and spars a dingy black, rigging all slack
and bleached nearly white, and everything denoting an ill state of affairs aboard
— ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
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Dimensions of a Creole Continuum: History, Texts & ...
Approaches ... a slatternly girl with straw hat giving way at the crown. 204 "Babu,
got um any lime?" 205 "H-a. Good lime, cent, cent." 206 Slatternly girl (shaking
her head dubiously). "N-o, dey is too dry up." 207 Babu: "Good lime, muma.
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
The act of bedaubing, workin in mud or in a slatternly manner ; slatternly work. nfii
, Cld. (Jam) Hence Slaggery-job, 56. a dirt piece of work. w.Cor. (M.A.C. 9. A
small portion 0 any soft substance ; an unseem y mass or mixture of anything wet
or ...
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1861. Tom Tiddler's ground, by C. Dickens [and others
stoutly ; and with that we actually rang at the second bell handle on the left hand
doorpost. After the proper amount of delay the door was opened by a slatternly
woman. " Second-floor back ? " said I, in a mellifluous voice. " Front," replied the ...
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A literary melange of prose and verse
I must confess, I am ashamed of your slatternly appearance this morning. Mrs.
Trimmer. * Slatternly ! — I slatternly ! Now this is too good ; — a wife who has
sacrificed her husband's affection for order, to be called by him slatternly !
Trimmer ...
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Tom Tiddler's Ground: A Christmas Budget
After the proper amount of delay the door was opened by a slatternly woman. "
Second-floor back ? " said I in a mellifluous voice. " Front," replied the slatternly
woman, in rather an injured tone ; " you should have rung the bell on the right ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLATTERNLY»
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slatternly is used in the context of the following news items.
Review: A rousing— and loud— 'Matilda'
Buoyantly vicious, slatternly Cassie Silva and preening, scheming Quinn Mattfeld are deliciously despicable parents for Matilda as the Wormwords, starting with ... «SFGate, Jul 15»
'Meadowland': Review
She not only starts to follow Adam with every intention of intervening in his unhappy existence, but stalks his slatternly foster mother and barfly foster father. «Screen International, Apr 15»
I knew it! Spring cleaning is bad for your family's health
Am I alone in feeling smug (if slatternly) about the news that super-clean homes are a breeding ground for infection? Apparently, all that bleach is bad not just for ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
How to wear leggings the grownup way
Leggings have been strangely contentious of late, often deemed unflattering, overly revealing or slatternly. Nonsense. Here is how older women can reclaim ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
Grinchosaurus in Utah, an exchange of letters with Wendell Berry …
Jackson, a “slatternly” town, as the magazine put it, was suffering from years of neglect; it needed new culverts, a refurbished cemetery, new health laws that ... «High Country News, Dec 14»
The Tribe of Liberty
I think Miley Cyrus's prime-time slatternly gyrations are an embarrassment and a sign of a real sickness in our culture. But if such behavior makes a bunch of ... «National Review Online, Dec 14»
Ooh, The Noble Lords Of Gramercy Park Will Let The Rabble In For …
... will be flung open on Christmas Eve at 6 p.m., letting any knuckle-dragging blackguard or slatternly termagant trample all over it for sixty disgraceful minutes. «Gothamist, Dec 14»
Lyric Opera delivers the vocal thunder in a dark and combustible …
A crucified prisoner hangs in the shadows, knives are impulsively drawn, the swordplay feels real, and the soldiers cavort with slatternly whores. There is a ... «Chicago Classical Review, Oct 14»
Film Review: 'Nowhere in Moravia'
Maruna's sexual forthrightness has a grotesque mirror in “Lad'a's Old Lady” (Simona Babcakova), a slatternly, hard-drinking forest worker who shares a derelict ... «Variety, Jul 14»
Tory summer party 2013: setting the scene
... Nathaniel Hawthorne once described Old Billingsgate market as a 'dirty, evil-smelling, crowded precinct' thronging with 'rough men and slatternly women'. «Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Jul 14»
