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slammerkin

slammerkin noun: a loose women's morning gown, popular in the eighteenth century.

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 slammerkin

pluralslammerkins
alternative formslamkin
alternative formslammakin

Origin of slammerkin

Unknown.

Questions about slammerkin

What does slammerkin mean?
Slammerkin means a loose women's morning gown, popular in the eighteenth century.
What part of speech is slammerkin?
Slammerkin is a noun.
What is the plural of slammerkin?
The plural of slammerkin is slammerkins.

Words near slammerkin in the dictionary

  1. slammed
  2. slammed back
  3. slammed down
  4. slammed on the brakes
  5. slammer
  6. slammerkin
  7. slammerkins
  8. slammers
  9. slammin'
  10. slamming
  11. slamming back

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