Slattern

Next morning, Miss Scatcherd wrote in conspicuous characters on a piece of pasteboard the word "Slattern," and bound it like a phylactery round Helen's large, mild, intelligent, and benign-looking forehead.

Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I. 1848

It was the year of grace 1750, and old Mother Corrigan sat outside her door in Slattern Alley, smoking her short black pipe with a relish; and't was a good day with her, for she had told his fortune that morning for

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

Looked more like the dress of a real Miss Slattern

Nothing to Eat Horatio Alger 1865

-- Yes, I always know when Lady Slattern has been before me.

The Rivals A Comedy Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1783

Lady Slattern Lounger, who had just sent it home, had so soiled and dog's-eared it, it wa'n't fit for a Christian to read.

The Rivals A Comedy Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1783

She is uncleanly in her Person, a Slattern in her Dress, and her Family is no better than a Dunghill_.

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

Slattern is a custom toilet seat baron who tries to cheat young T-Bird, engaging him to mow his lawn for 75-cents, only to open the gate on an overgrown, thistle-choked yard.

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