slattern
suomi-englanti sanakirjaslattern englannista suomeksi
homssu
lumppu, horatsu, lutka
Substantiivi
slattern englanniksi
A slut, a sexually promiscuous woman.
(syn)
One who is uncareful or unconcerned about appearance or surroundings, usually said of a dirty and untidy woman.
{{quote-book|en|year=1809|author=Noah Webster, Esq.|title=An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth, to Which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the Mind|page=24
(RQ:Thackeray Pendennis)
1868 September 17, Lizzie Leavenworth, ''★★Slattern Genius★★''; quoted in 2001 by Anne Russo and Cherise Kramarae in ''The Radical Women’s Press of the 1850s'', page 202:
- (..) How many times I have heard a woman called a slattern, because she could not keep a house in order, when had she been allowed to write out her sublime thoughts, which were all in another direction, she would have astonished the world with her genius.
{{quote-text|en|year=1933|author=Noel Coward|title=Private Lives: an Intimate Comedy in Three Acts|section=act 3