[Ads-l] slummock/slommack

[Jonathan Lighter]

The lady in question was hardly "slovenly." The imputation was that she
was, you know, "sleeping around."

Cf. sense development of "slut."

JL



On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Joan Hall <jdhall at wisc.edu> wrote:

> DARE has an entry for slommack (with slummock as a variant), meaning a
> slovenly person.
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