What's the difference between slattern and trapes?

Slattern


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.
  • (a.) Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny.
  • (v. t.) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She wrote that writers such as Caitlin Moran and Bryony Gordon (the Telegraph journalist allegedly called a “slut” or “slattern” by Michael Fallon , the defence secretary) are producing hyperconfessional works that constitute an “abandoning of dignity and self-respect”.
  • (2) This may be tricky for a party famously disapproving of slatterns who don't clean behind their fridges, but one can see why Farage thinks it worth a go.
  • (3) The word slut can mean a women who is slatternly but also one who is sexually promiscuous.

Trapes


Definition:

  • (n.) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
  • (v. i.) To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In these cases the aneurysm has been traped by ligation of the internal carotid artery in the neck and its supraclinoid course and at the same time and extracranial intracranial anastomosis performed.
  • (2) Case report about a 53 year old man, suffering from sudden suffocation, caused by inflammatory laryngeal edema following a foreign body traping in the esophagus with consecutive abscess and phlegmona of the esophageal wall.

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