stummock

stummock
   Also ‘slammock’, which appears to have been the original form of the word in English dialect. A slummock is a slut, and the term is ‘frequently used as a disrespectful term of address’, according to the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, though it quotes no vocative examples. Up the City Road, by John Stroud, has a man saying to a young woman: ‘you bloody horrible little slummock’. ‘Will you mind your language, please?’ she replies.

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  • stummock — obs. form of stomach …   Useful english dictionary

  • slammock —    see stummock …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

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