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slamkin

slamkin is the obsolete form of slammerkin.

Meaning of slammerkin

Noun

slammerkin (plural slammerkins)

  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

Forms of slamkin

pluralslamkins

Questions about slamkin

What is slamkin the obsolete form of?
Slamkin is the obsolete form of slammerkin.

Words near slamkin in the dictionary

  1. slamfire
  2. slamfires
  3. slamfuck
  4. Slami
  5. Slamis
  6. slamkin
  7. slamkins
  8. slammable
  9. slammakin
  10. slammakins
  11. slammaster

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