Slattern
slat·tern (slă'tәrn)
n.
An untidy, dirty woman.
[Perhaps from dialectal slattering, slovenly, present participle of dialectal slatter, to slop.]
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Main Entry: no·men·cla·tor Pronunciation: nō'mən-klā́tər Function: noun Etymology: Latin, slave whose duty was to announce the names of persons met during a political campaign, from nomen + calare to call 1 : a book containing collections or lists of words 2 archaic : one who announces the names of guests or of persons generally 3 : one who gives names to or invents names for things
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