Sloven

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sloven \Slov"en\, n. [D. slaf careless, negligent, a sloven;
     akin to LG. sluf slovenly.]
     A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; --
     the correlative term to slattern, or slut. --Pope.
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           He became a confirmed sloven.            --Macaulay.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sloven
       n : a coarse obnoxious person [syn: {slob}, {pig}, {slovenly
           person}]