# slatter

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To be awkward, careless, or negligent, especially with regard to dress and neatness.
2. To be wasteful.

## Etymology
From English dialectal slat (“to throw or dash about”), from Middle English sclatten, skleatten (“to flap”), from Old English slǣtan (“to sic”) and/or Old Norse sletta (“to slap, dash”) + -er.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/slatter