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Sloven

//ˈslʌvən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A habitually dirty or untidy man or boy; the male equivalent of slattern, or slut.
  2. 2
    a coarse obnoxious person wordnet
  3. 3
    A low, base, lewd person.

    "The follest slouen ondyr heuen, / Prowde, peuiche, lyddyr, and lewde, / Malapert, medyllar, nothyng well thewde, […]"

  4. 4
    An immoral woman. obsolete

Etymology

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 -anus.

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