Word of the Day:
sloven
What It Means
A habitually dirty or untidy man or boy; the male equivalent of slattern, or slut.
Sloven in Context
“The follest slouen ondyr heuen, / Prowde, peuiche, lyddyr, and lewde, / Malapert, medyllar, nothyng well thewde, […]”
Did You Know?
From Middle English sloveyn, from Middle Flemish sloovin (“a scold”). Related to Middle Dutch sloef (“untidy, shabby”), from Proto-Germanic *slup- + Old French -ain, from Latin -ānus.
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