n. A man or boy habitually negligent of neatness and order; -- the male equivalent of slattern, or slut; untidy, dirty.
n. low, base, lewd
n. immoral woman
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A person who is careless of dress or negligent of cleanliness; a person who is habitually negligent of neatness and order; also, a careless and lazy person.
n. A knave; a rascal.
n. Same as Slovene.
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n. a coarse obnoxious person
Word Usage
"As to his dress in general, he cannot indeed be called a sloven, but sometimes he is too gaudy, at other times too plain, to be uniformly elegant."