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slummocker dial.|ˈslʌməkə(r)|
Also slummicker.
[Of obscure ulterior etym.: see slammakin n. and a.; slummock v. This form is not recorded in dialect dicts.]
= slammakin n. 2; an awkward or careless person.
1905G. B. Shaw Let. 13 Aug. in A. T. Schwab James Gibbons Huneker (1963) xiii. 167 You will never be anything but a clever slummocker in America. 1905― Let. 16 Sept. in J. G. Huneker Steeplejack (1920) II. 258 The reason I call you a slummocker and heap insults on you, is that you are very useful to me in America, and quite friendly; consequently, you must be educated or you will compromise me. 1940C. Stead Man who loved Children (1941) ix. 376, I have to let that great big slummicker wash the dishes and smash every glass and plate in the house. |