Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Slattern, Sloven, Sloppy, Slut

Slattern: A dirty, untidy woman.
Sloven: An untidy person.
Sloppy: Untidy.
Slut: A slovenly woman, a slattern.
The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and out lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung.
As he stared out the wndow and saw the fallow unworked earth, the great raw lift of the Peidmont, the muddy red clay roads, and the slattern people gaping at the stations.
Eugene was intrusted almost completely to a young slovenly negress. He remembered vividly her tall slattern figure, her slapping lazy feet, her dirty white stockings, and her strong smell, black and funky.

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