slattern
- n a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
- n a dirty untidy woman
- Attached to Tobias is Diana, a once beautiful woman turned promiscuous slattern, who ridicules the idea of the pilgrimage and tags along only to be with him.
- A gleaming, mackerel-in-the-moonlight exception is Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, who called his painting of a varicose-veined slattern Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, and .
- But the dictionary's first definition is "a slovenly woman; a slattern," and that's the one the Observer's Whitehorn also likes.