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slammakin

slammakin 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 slammakin

pluralslammakins

Questions about slammakin

What is slammakin the obsolete form of?
Slammakin is the obsolete form of slammerkin.

Words near slammakin in the dictionary

  1. Slami
  2. Slamis
  3. slamkin
  4. slamkins
  5. slammable
  6. slammakin
  7. slammakins
  8. slammaster
  9. slammasters
  10. slammed
  11. slammed back

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