slummyn.1
/ˈslʌmi/, U.S. /ˈsləmi/ slang. English regional (Liverpool).
1. Junk, scrap; esp. material such as rope, dunnage, or scrap metal which may be taken and sold. Now rare.
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1932 Liverpool Echo 24 Nov. 9/4 In the local language of Liverpool, it [sc. the rope] ‘went into the slummy as junk’.
1940 Liverpool Daily Post 12 Mar. 3/2 One of the uses of ‘slummy’ is to describe pieces of rope used in connection with the loading of steel bars or rods. There used to be a number of ‘slummy men’ who dealt in the rope remnants left over after ships' voyages; and nowadays Liverpool dock workers often speak of any junk heap as ‘the slummy’.
1958 Listener 6 Feb. 232/2 Lamp Paddy Kelly, he seen you nick the slummy.
1966 Liverpool Echo 23 Nov. 14 Then out to Liverpool Bay..where..the sand and slummy are discharged into the deep.
1984 Observer 11 Mar. 26 Going ‘on the slummy’—pinching scrap metal from adjacent derelict flats.
2. Loose change; coins.
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1992 Liverpool Echo 14 Oct. a8 If you're so tight you're going to stand by the door begging for your slummy back, I'll mercilessly humiliate you by stopping in the middle of Dale Street, grabbing my ticket machine and money bag, [etc.].
1996 Re: Well I Never in demon.local (Usenet newsgroup) 23 Sept. Slummy is heavy you know.
1997 Guardian 2 Oct. ii. 3/5 Ron Dicko's got no slummy to put in the lekky meter.
2001 K. Sampson Outlaws (2002) 86 Think you can take the piss? Think you can get me to count out your slummy?
2014 @colinebbrell 21 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I've got 4 Pringle tubes of slummy to pay for the Xmas do.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slummyn.2
colloquial.
A slum-dweller.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > inhabitant of slum
slummer1888
slummy1934
1934 P. O'Mara (title) Autobiography of a Liverpool Irish slummy.
1964 A. Prior Z Cars Again xvi. 158 The remains of many meals stood on..a newspaper... It was a typical slummie's house.
1973 ‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed xii. 111 Big Fry..tauntingly called out: ‘We're the slummies!’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
slummyadj.1
1. Given to frequenting the slums.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [adjective]
golec888
canga1225
light?c1225
wooinga1382
nicea1387
riota1400
wantonc1400
wrenec1400
lachesc1450
loose?a1500
licentious1555
libertine1560
prostitute1569
riggish1569
wide1574
slipper1581
slippery1586
sportive1595
gay1597
Cyprian1598
suburb1598
waggish1600
smicker1606
suburbian1606
loose-living1607
wantona1627
free-living1632
libertinous1632
loose-lived1641
Corinthian1642
akolastic1656
slight1685
fast1699
freea1731
brisk1740
shy1787
slang1818
randomc1825
fastish1832
loosish1846
slummya1860
velocious1872
fly1880
slack1951
a1860 in Oxford use.
2.
a. Of the nature of a slum; abounding in or possessing slums. Also absol.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [adjective] > slums
slummy1873
1873 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London 352 Out of Goldsmith's Row, which is slummy,..turns a court which is slummier still.
1885 M. Pattison Mem. I. 14 Oxford, not then overbuilt and slummy, looked..charming.
1892 Spectator 5 Mar. 332/1 Where the street verges on the slummy.
b. Dealing with the slums or slum-life.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [adjective] > slums > dealing with
slummy1906
1906 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Mar. 4 The slummy novel, probably, is no longer fashionable.
3. Slovenly, careless.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > careless, not thorough
overlyc1450
superficialc1456
sloven1532
sloven-like1569
perfunctory1592
slovenly1592
perfunctorious1599
cursory1601
cursorarya1616
slighty1619
cursitory1632
touch and go1682
passant1685
skimming1728
slapdashc1792
lax1812
slap-bang1815
slummocking1825
slobbery1832
percursory1837
slipshod1845
slip-string1854
slummocky1855
free and easy1864
unthorough1868
slurring1880
slummy1881
sploshy1881
skimmy1893
surfacy1975
drive-through1994
1881 in Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Sept. (1886) 13/2 It was to draw and to paint most carefully, and to avoid slummy, sloppy work,..that we banded ourselves together.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
† slummyadj.2
Obsolete. rare.
Drowsy; inclined to slumber.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [adjective]
winkinga1000
slummy?c1225
anappedc1300
sleepya1325
heavy1382
slumberyc1386
sleepful1398
peisant1484
slumberous1495
drowsy1530
sleepish1530
sleepery1535
slumberinga1538
somnolent1547
heavy-headed1552
drowsy-headed1576
narrow-eyed1607
soporiferous1607
oscitant1625
nodding1631
Morphean1641
dormious1656
somniculous1656
dozed1659
drowsed1667
peeping1673
dozy1693
peepy1699
somniferous1798
noddy1801
dozing1820
head-nodding1832
snory1837
soporific1841
somnolescent1845
swodder1847
adrowse1848
snoozy1877
slumbersome1884
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 189 Hwa mei beon for schame slummi sluggi & slaw.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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