- slummock
- Noun. A dirty, untidy or lazy person. InformalVerb. To behave in a lazy and unkempt fashion. Informal
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slummock Brit. — slummock Brit. informal noun a slovenly person. verb behave in an indolent or careless way. Origin C19: of unknown origin … English new terms dictionary
slummock — slum·mock … English syllables
slummock — /ˈslʌmək/ (say slumuhk) noun 1. Colloquial a careless, untidy person. –verb (i) 2. to act in a slovenly way. {British dialect slammock} –slummocky, adjective …
slummock — ˈsləmə̇k variant of slommack … Useful english dictionary
Pitt Lake Gold — – Origins of a The legendary hidden treasures of Pitt Lake have caught the imagination of people worldwide for more than a century. First the mysterious riches in the mountainous wilderness were nameless, but over time they became known as… … Wikipedia
stummock — Also ‘slammock’, which appears to have been the original form of the word in English dialect. A slummock is a slut, and the term is ‘frequently used as a disrespectful term of address’, according to the Supplement to the Oxford English… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
Uncleanness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Uncleanness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 uncleanness uncleanness &c.???adj. Sgm: N 1 impurity impurity Sgm: N 1 immundity immundity immundicity Sgm: N 1 impurity impurity &c.???of mind ???>961 … English dictionary for students
slut — c.1400, a dirty, slovenly, or untidy woman, probably cognate with dialectal Ger. Schlutt slovenly woman, dialectal Swed. slata idle woman, slut, and Du. slodder slut, but the ultimate origin is doubtful. Chaucer uses sluttish (late 14c.) in… … Etymology dictionary
slommock — /ˈslʌmək/ (say slumuhk) noun, verb (i) → slummock …
