slumgullionn.
slang. (chiefly U.S.).
1. (See quot. 1874.)
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the world > food and drink > drink > types or qualities of beverage > [noun] > watery drink
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1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It iv. 43 He poured for us a beverage which he called ‘Slumgullion’.
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 297 Slumgullion, any cheap, nasty, washy beverage.
2.
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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 transferred. U.S.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > earth > [noun] > muddy deposit in mining sluice
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1887 B. Harte Millionaire & Devil's Ford 146 We preach at them for playing in the slumgullion, and getting themselves splashed.
1894 B. Harte in My First Book 264 A quantity of slumgullion which really belongs to the sluices of a placer mining camp.
1906 C. de L. Canfield Diary of Forty-Niner 27 The mud we were sending down the stream buried them under slumgullion.
1948 O. 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.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > stewed meat
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puchero1802
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hashmagandy1851
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1902 J. London Daughter of Snows 45 ‘What do you happen to call it?’ ‘Slumgullion,’ she responded curtly, and thereafter the meal went on in silence.
1904 E. Robins Magn. North iv. 59 ‘Mix 'em with cold potaters in a salad.’ ‘No, make slumgullion,’ commanded O'Flynn.
1932 J. Dos Passos 1919 17 Bedbugs in the bunks in the stinking focastle, slumgullion for grub.
1959 A. Sillitoe Loneliness of Long-distance Runner 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.
1976 T. Walker Spatsizi x. 115 For want of a better word we called it slumgullion.
3.
a. A servant, representative. U.S.
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1869 C. G. Leland Hans Breitmann Ballads 61 Should I in the Legisladure as your slumgullion stand.
b. A low, worthless fellow. U.S.
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1926 J. B. Ames Valley of Missing Men viii She is..a whole lot too good for that lump o' slumgullion she lives with.
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