sloven

From Middle Flemish sloovin (“a scold”) related to sloef (“untidy, shabby”), from Proto-Germanic *slup- + Old French suffix -ain, from Latin -anus.

sloven (plural slovens)

1. A habitually dirty or untidy man or boy; the male equivalent of slattern, or slut.
2. A low, base, lewd person.
3. (obsolete) An immoral woman.

• (man or boy habitually negligent of neatness and order): cutterman, scruff, slob; See also Thesaurus:untidy person
• (immoral woman): See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

• slovenliness
• slovenly
• slovenness

• Lovens, novels

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• Rhymes: -oːvən

sloven

1. Plural form of sloof

• slovenar

sloven m (definite singular slovenen, indefinite plural slovenar, definite plural slovenane)

1. Slovenian (person)

• Slovenia
• slovensk

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Sloven.

• IPA^(key): [sloˈven]

sloven m or n (feminine singular slovenă, masculine plural sloveni, feminine and neuter plural slovene)

1. (of a person) Slovene, Slovenian

sloven m (plural sloveni, feminine equivalent slovenă)

1. a Slovene/Slovenian person

sloven c

1. A person from Slovenia, chiefly male

• slovenska