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slumˈgullion slang. (chiefly U.S.).
[Probably a fanciful formation.]
1. (See quot. 1874.)
1872‘Mark Twain’ Roughing It iv. 44 He poured for us a beverage which he called ‘Slumgullion’. 1874Slang Dict. 297 Slumgullion, any cheap, nasty, washy beverage.
2. a. ‘Offal or refuse of fish of any kind; also, the watery refuse, mixed with blood and oil, which drains from blubber’ (Cent. Dict. 1891). U.S.
b. A muddy deposit in a mining sluice. Also transf. U.S.
1887B. Harte Millionaire & Devil's Ford 146 We preach at them for playing in the slumgullion, and getting themselves splashed. 1894― in My First Book 264 A quantity of slumgullion which really belongs to the sluices of a placer mining camp. 1906C. de L. Canfield Diary of Forty-Niner 27 The mud we were sending down the stream buried them under slumgullion. 1948O. Weston Mother Lode Album 82 The miners..insisted on calling it ‘Slumgullion’, because when it rained the knee-deep adobe mud was no small problem.
c. A kind of watery hash or stew. Chiefly U.S.
1902J. London Daughter of Snows 45 ‘What do you happen to call it?’ ‘Slumgullion,’ she responded curtly, and thereafter the meal went on in silence. 1904E. Robins Magnetic North iv. 59 ‘Mix 'em with cold potaters in a salad.’ ‘No, make slumgullion,’ commanded O'Flynn. 1932J. Dos Passos 1919 17 Bedbugs in the bunks in the stinking focastle, slumgullion for grub. 1959A. Sillitoe Loneliness 7 The first thing a long-distance cross-country runner would do..would be to run as far away from the place as he could get on a bellyful of Borstal slumgullion. 1976T. Walker Spatsizi x. 115 For want of a better word we called it slumgullion. |