Slov"en (?), n. [D. slaf careless, negligent, a sloven; akin to LG. sluf slovenly.]

A man or boy habitually negligent of neatness and order; -- the correlative term to slattern, or slut.

Pope.

He became a confirmed sloven. Macaulay.

 

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