slammerkin

plural slammerkins · alternative slamkin · alternative slammakin

1. archaichistoricalA loose women's morning gown, popular in the eighteenth century.First known use 18th c.
2. UKarchaiccolloquialdialectalA slut; an untidy or slatternly woman.First known use 18th c.

   As for her other lover, Mr Ricketts, he very shortly after her premature death sought comfort for himself in the arms of a vulgar, huge, coarse Irish slammerkin, Miss Prendergast.

   1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 400