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She could not tell how I might take it; but she quickly rallied, burst into a loud screeching laugh, and, with her old Walpurgis gaiety, danced some fantastic steps in her bare wet feet, tracking the floor with water, and holding out with finger and thumb, in dainty caricature, her slammakin old skirt, while she sang some of her nasal patois with an abominable hilarity and emphasis.
Uncle Silas 2003
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The vainest and most slammakin of women -- the merest slut at home,
Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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She could not tell how I might take it; but she quickly rallied, burst into a loud screeching laugh, and, with her old Walpurgis gaiety, danced some fantastic steps in her bare wet feet, tracking the floor with water, and holding out with finger and thumb, in dainty caricature, her slammakin old skirt, while she sang some of her nasal patois with an abominable hilarity and emphasis.
Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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The vainest and most slammakin of women — the merest slut at home, a milliner’s lay figure out of doors — she had one square foot of looking-glass upon the chimneypiece, and therein tried effects, and conjured up grotesque simpers upon her sinister and weary face.
Uncle Silas 2003
raven_in_the_woods commented on the word slammakin
also, slammerkin
n. a slovenly female, a sloven, a slattern
adj. untidy, slovenly
"a female sloven, one whose clothes seem hung on with a pitch fork, a careless trapes."
-A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
February 21, 2012