slovenly+person

  • 31dag — I. /dæg / (say dag) noun 1. Also, daglock. wool on a sheep s rear quarters which is dirty with mud and excreta. 2. → dag picker. –verb (t) (dagged, dagging) 3. to shear dags from (sheep). –phrase 4. rattle your dags, Colloquial …

  • 32hoodlum — /ˈhudləm / (say hoohdluhm) noun 1. a petty gangster; ruffian. 2. a destructive, noisy, or rough child or young person. {origin uncertain; originating in San Francisco in 1870s; probably from German dialect words, such as hudelum disorderly,… …

  • 33slouch — /slaʊtʃ / (say slowch) verb (i) 1. to sit or stand in an awkward, drooping posture. 2. to move or walk with loosely drooping body and careless gait. 3. to have a droop or downward bend, as a hat. –verb (t) 4. to cause to droop or bend down, as… …

  • 34litter lout — noun a person who litters public places with refuse • Syn: ↑litterer, ↑litterbug • Derivationally related forms: ↑litter (for: ↑litterer) • Hypernyms: ↑slob, ↑ …

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  • 35litterer — noun a person who litters public places with refuse • Syn: ↑litterbug, ↑litter lout • Derivationally related forms: ↑litter • Hypernyms: ↑slob, ↑sloven, ↑pig, ↑ …

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  • 36schlump — /shloomp/, Slang. n. 1. a dull, colorless person. 2. a slovenly person; slob. v.i. 3. to loaf or idle. Also, shlump. [1950 55, Amer.; prob. of expressive orig.] …

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  • 37skell — /skel/, n. Slang. 1. a homeless person who lives on the streets, sleeps in doorways or subways, etc.; derelict. 2. a slovenly person. [1950 55; perh. shortening of SKELETON] …

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  • 38wal|ly|drag — «WAY lee drag, WOL ee », noun. Scottish. 1. a) a weak or runty person or animal. b) the youngest (and often feeblest) of a family, brood, or litter. 2. a worthless, slovenly person, especially a woman …

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  • 39grub — I. verb (grubbed; grubbing) Etymology: Middle English grubben; akin to Old English grafan to dig more at grave Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to clear by digging up roots and stumps 2. to dig up by or as if by the roots intransitive verb …

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  • 40streel — I. intransitive verb Etymology: Irish straoill , sraoill to tear apart, trail, trudge, from Old Irish sroiglid he scourges, from sroigell scourge, from Latin flagellum more at flagellate Date: 1805 1. chiefly Irish to saunter idly and aimlessly 2 …

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