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slammerkins

slammerkins is the plural 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

Questions about slammerkins

What is slammerkins the plural of?
Slammerkins is the plural of slammerkin.

Words near slammerkins in the dictionary

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

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