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- noun Alternative form of
slamkin .
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Examples
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I should observe that she was a brisk, coquetish woman; a little of a shrew, and something of a slammerkin, but very pretty withal; with a nincompoop for a husband, as shrews are apt to have.
Drawing-Room Tales. The Stout Gentleman; The Deserter; and The Broken Heart 1830
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I should observe that she was a brisk, coquettish woman; a little of a shrew, and something of a slammerkin, but very pretty withal; with a nincompoop for a husband, as shrews are apt to have.
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Washington Irving 1821
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