slumgullion
Americannoun
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a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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a beverage made weak or thin, as watery tea, coffee, or the like.
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the refuse from processing whale carcasses.
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a reddish, muddy deposit in mining sluices.
noun
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slang an inexpensive stew
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offal, esp the refuse from whale blubber
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a reddish mud deposited in mine sluices
Etymology
Origin of slumgullion
1840–50, compare Scots, Hiberno-English gullion quagmire, cesspool
Example Sentences
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“A big slumgullion of legislation,” Mr. Whitehouse offered.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2018
The earliest Batman comics are “a crude, four-color slumgullion of borrowed ideas and stolen art”; the Joker wears “riverboat-gambler couture.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2016
Weldon deliciously calls this many-fathered creation “a crude, four-color slumgullion of borrowed ideas and stolen art.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2016
Really bad art is probably invulnerable to criticism, and so it is with this slumgullion.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was plied with slumgullion and every other delicacy, and her health was drunk in numerous cups of cocoa.
From The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
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