Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sloven"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sloven \Slov"en\, n. [D. slaf careless, negligent, a sloven;
akin to LG. sluf slovenly.]
A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; --
the correlative term to slattern, or slut. --Pope.
He became a confirmed sloven. --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sloven
n : a coarse obnoxious person [syn: {slob}, {pig}, {slovenly
person}]
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