Slam"-bang` (?), adv. With great violence; with a slamming or banging
noise. [Colloq.]
{ Slam"kin (?), Slam"mer*kin (?), } n. [Cf. G. schlampe, schlamp, dim.
schlämpchen; schlampen to dangle, to be slovenly in one's dress.] A
slut; a slatternly woman. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Slan"der (?), n. [OE. sclandere, OF. esclandre, esclandle, escandre, F.
esclandre, fr. L. scandalum, Gr. &?;&?;&?; a snare, stumbling block,
offense, scandal; probably originally, the spring of a trap, and akin
to Skr. skand to spring, leap. See Scan, and cf. Scandal.] 1. A false
tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of
another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the
dissemination of malicious tales or suggestions to the injury of
another.
Whether we speak evil of a man to his face or behind his back; the
former way, indeed, seems to be the most generous, but yet is a
great fault, and that which we call "reviling;" the latter is more
mean and base, and that which we properly call "slander", or
"Backbiting."
Tillotson.
[We] make the careful magistrate The mark of slander.
B. Jonson.
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