Thesaurus:untidy person

Thesaurus

untidy person

English

Noun

Sense: a dirty, unkempt, untidy person

Synonyms

• clatty (Irish, Scottish)
• dag (Australian & NZ, slang)
• dirtbag
• dirtball (slang)
• feague (obsolete)
• frump
• grotbag (slang)
• grub (Australian, slang)
• meff (British, dialect)
• oinker (slang)
• pig    [⇒ thesaurus] (figurative)
• ragtag
• schlep
• schlump (slang)
• scruff
• scruffbag (slang)
• scruffball (slang)
• scunge (slang)
• shabaroon (obsolete)
• slob
• slotch (British, dialect)
• slammock (British, dialect)
• slummock
• soap dodger (slang, humorous)
• mudlark

Antonyms

• dandy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• neat freak (US)

Hyponyms

Untidy man:

• cutterman (US)
• sloven
•   —
• roughneck (chiefly US)

Untidy woman:

• blowsabella (obsolete)
• daffock (British, dialect)
• dowd (archaic)
• dowdy
• drab (dated)
• drabble-tail (archaic)
• draggle-tail (archaic)
• dretch
• froe (obsolete)
• frow (obsolete)
• legbeard (Internet slang)
• mab (obsolete)
• malkin (archaic)
• mawk (British, dialect, obsolete)
• mawks (British, dialect)
• moggy (British, dialect)
• scrag (Australian, slang)
• scrubber (British, slang)
• slack Alice (British, dialect)
• slamkin (obsolete)
• slattern (dated)
• slut (archaic)
• sozzle (archaic)
• streel
• taupie (British, dialect)
• trape (obsolete)
• trapes (obsolete)

Hypernyms

• person    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• wreck of the Hesperus (archaic)

See also

• unkempt    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “653. uncleanness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “slattern” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• “slob” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.