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slammerkin en · NOUN

Etymology

Unknown.

Meanings

1. (archaic, historical) A loose women's morning gown, popular in the eighteenth century.
2. (UK, archaic, colloquial, dialectal) 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. 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 400

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