Sloven

Definition: Sloven

Sloven

Noun

1. A coarse obnoxious person.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sloven" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references)

Etymology: Sloven \Slov"en\, noun. [from Dutch expression slaf careless, negligent, sloven; akin to Low German sluf slovenly.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sloven

Bungler

Sloven, slattern, trapes.

Uncleanness

Dowdy, drab, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep; beast.

Vehicle

Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle.

Crosswords: Sloven

Dutch (work hard), Romanian (Slovene, slovenian), Serbo-Croatian (slav), Swedish (Slovene), Turkish (Slovene).

Books

• Sloven English Dictionary (reference)

• Zwoegen, sloven, slaven : een verouderd arbeidsethos? : verkenning van een veranderend begrip (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

shkatarraq (slovenly), pisanjos (slovenly), fëlligë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهمل (abandoned, antiquated, careless, derelict, deserted, discarded, disregarded, disregardful, disused, forgetful, forgotten, forsaken, heedless, ignored, in disuse, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, left out, left over, neglected, neglectful, negligent, no longer of use, obsolete, omitted, out of use, outdated, reckless, refuse, regardless, remiss, slack, unpointed, waste), ‏متخلف (absent, ataxy, backward, behind one's back, falling behind, lagging, truant, underdeveloped), ‏قذر الملابس (slovenly), ‏قذر الجسم أو الملابس, ‏القذر (beastliness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

немарливец, повлекана (frump, grub, slattern), повлекан (ragbag). (various references)

Czech

nepořádník, špindíra (slag, slattern). (various references)

Danish

skaeg (beard). (various references)

Dutch

baard (beard, bit). (various references)

Finnish

tyvirepeämä (barber chair, barber's chair, beard, tombstone). (various references)

French

souillon (slattern, slob), personne sans soin, personne sale, personne négligée, peigne. (various references)

German

Schlamper (sloppy person, slovens, untidy person). (various references)

Greek 

λέτσοσ, ακατάστατο άτομο. (various references)

Hebrew 

רשלן (negligent, remiss). (various references)

Hungarian

szurtos ember, lompos ember, ápolatlan ember. (various references)

Italian

sciattone (slob), barba (awn, beard, bore, whiskers). (various references)

Manx

trudlym (vagrant), trouise (crowd, dowdy, literary garbage, rot, rubbish, slattern, trollop, trumpery; trash, trumpery; trash of person), slibbin, brollaghan (ragamuffin), blouse. (various references)

Pig Latin

ovenslay.(various references)

Portuguese

sujo (boarish, cloudy, crummy, dingy, ebon, feculent, filthy, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grouty, grubby, lousy, messy, miry, mucky, nasty, obscene, piggish, scurrilous, slovenly, smudgy, smutty, soiled, splotchy, squalid, stained, swinish, unclean, untidy, unwashed), remendão (cobbler, mender, tinker), indivíduo desleixado. (various references)

Romanian

persoanã neglijentã, persoanã leneşã, persoanã cu ţinutã neângrijitã, persoanã şlampãtã, paceaurã (duster, scold), ciuf (aigret, Bob, shock). (various references)

Russian 

неряха (draggle-tail, messy, pig, slattern, slob, traipse, trapse, trollop). (various references)

Scottish

slibist (a sloven). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

aljkavac. (various references)

Spanish

vago (bone-idle, erratic, faint, idle, Idler, lazybones, loiterer, loose, nameless, shadowy, sketchy, slacker, slouch, tramp, truant, twilight, vacant, vague), astillón (beard). (various references)

Swedish

smutsgris (grub), slarver (fribble, ne'er do well). (various references)

Turkish

pasaklı (dowdy, dowdyish, draggled, frowzy, gay, messy, out of trim, ratty, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, untidy), kılıksız kimse (fright, slob), şapşal (a button short, raunchy, silly, slovenly). (various references)

Ukrainian

халтурник, нечепура (draggle-tail, grub, pig, slattern, trollop), некультурний (barbaric, barbarous, uncultivated), неохайний (chatty, dowdy, frowzy, frumpish, grubby, negligent, scruffy, slapdash, slattern, slatternly, slobbery, slovenly, soppy, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, untidy), недбалий працівник. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người nhếch nhác, người luộm thuộm. (various references)

Welsh

anghywair (discordant, disrepair, ill-equipped, unskillful). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sloven": slovenlier, slovenliest, slovenliness, slovenlinesses, slovenly, slovens. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: novels.

-1 letter: enols, lenos, loves, noels, novel, ovens, solve, voles.

-2 letters: enol, eons, leno, lens, levo, lone, lose, love, noel, noes, nose, oles, ones, oven, sloe, sole, sone, voes, vole.

-3 letters: els, ens, eon, lev, nos, oes, ole, one, ons, ose, sel, sen, sol, son, voe.

-4 letters: el, en, es, lo, ne, no, oe, on, os.

+1 letter: elevons, slovens, solvent.

+2 letters: convulse, envelops, evulsion, flavones, involves, nonlives, novelise, novelist, novellas, olivines, ovalness, slovenly, solvency, solvents, ungloves, unsolved, venously, venulose, venulous, violones.

+3 letters: conclaves, convolves, convulsed, convulses, envelopes, enviously, evulsions, insolvent, involutes, involvers, longevous, lovevines, nervously, nonnovels, nonselves, novelised, novelises, novelists, novelizes, novelties, overlands, overlends, overplans, resolvent, resolving, revulsion, sevenfold, shoveling, solvently, versional, violences, volcanoes, volplanes.