Victorian Vocabulary

noun a slovenly or untidy woman

• The slatternly appearance of the room left a poor impression on the guests.
• She's such a slattern, always leaving her things all over the place.
• I can't believe he's dating that slattern, she's a total mess.
• The neglect of the garden had turned it into a slattern of weeds and overgrown plants.

noun a person who talks at great length without making much sense

• The professor dismissed the student's argument as mere blatherskite.
• Stop talking blatherskite and get to the point.
• I can't stand that guy, he's always spouting blatherskite.
• Her mind was a whirlwind of blatherskite, making it hard to focus.