slammerkin

English

Alternative forms

• slamkin, slammakin

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

slammerkin (plural slammerkins)

1. (now rare, historical) A loose women's morning gown, popular in the eighteenth century. [from 18th c.]
2. (colloquial, now rare, UK, dialect) A slut; an untidy or slatternly woman. [from 18th c.]
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 400:

     As for her other lover, Mr Ricketts, he very shortly after her premature death sought comfort for himself in the arms of a vulgar, huge, coarse Irish slammerkin, Miss Prendergast.