slovenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈslʌvən/
• 韻: -ʌvən

名詞

sloven (plural slovens)

1. A habitually dirty or untidy man or boy; the male equivalent of slattern, or slut.
2. A low, base, lewd person.
   • a. 1530 (date written), John Skelton, “Poems against Garnesche. Skelton Laureate Defendar ageinst Lusty Garnyshe Well Beseen Crystofer Chalangar, et cetera.”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843, →OCLC, page 130, lines 145–147:

     The follest slouen ondyr heuen, / Prowde, peuiche, lyddyr, and lewde, / Malapert, medyllar, nothyng well thewde, […]

     The foullest sloven under heaven, / Proud, peevish, lither, and lewd, / Malapert, meddler, nothing well thewed, […]

3. (obsolete) An immoral woman.

同意語

• (man or boy habitually negligent of neatness and order): cutterman, scruff, slob; See also Thesaurus:untidy person
• (immoral woman): See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

派生語

• slovenliness
• slovenly
• slovenness
• slovenry

アナグラム

• Lovens, Selvon, volens, novels