sloven

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈslʌvən/

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• Rhymes: -ʌvən

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.
   • a. 1530 (date written), John Skelton, “Poems against Garnesche. Skelton Laureate Defendar ageinst Lusty Garnyshe Well Beseen Crystofer Chalangar, et cetera.”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843, →OCLC, page 130, lines 145–147:

     The follest slouen ondyr heuen, / Prowde, peuiche, lyddyr, and lewde, / Malapert, medyllar, nothyng well thewde, […]

     The foullest sloven under heaven, / Proud, peevish, lither, and lewd, / Malapert, meddler, nothing well thewed, […]

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
• slovenry

• Lovens, Selvon, volens, novels

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• Rhymes: -oːvən

sloven

1. plural of sloof

sloven

1. Slovene

• (Milanese) IPA^(key): /sluˈvẽː/

sloven

1. Slovene

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

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of slovenar

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”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

sloven c

1. A person from Slovenia, chiefly male

• Slovenien
• slovensk
• slovenska

• lovens