The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to SLATTERN

 

BLOWSE, or BLOWSABELLA		A woman whose hair is dishevelled, and hanging about her face; a slattern.
DRAGGLETAIL or DAGGLETAIL		One whose garments are bespattered with dag or dew: generally applied to the female sex, to signify a slattern.
MAWKES		A vulgar slattern.
SLATTERN		A woman sluttishly negligent in her dress.
TRAPES		A slatternly woman, a careless sluttish woman.