slattern• Anyway, the stranger was about to leave when a slatterndropped a tankard.• A slattern brought his own meal, a thickly spicedbowl of soup.• A slattern, evidently his wife, looked on fearfully.• Two days later I was in the taproom of Le Coq d'Or, the slattern beside me half drunk.
Originslattern
(1600-1700) Probably from Germanschlottern“to hang loosely”