slumgullion

American  

[sluhm-guhl-yuhn, sluhm-guhl-] / slʌmˈgʌl yən, ˈslʌmˌgʌl- /

noun

1. a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

2. a beverage made weak or thin, as watery tea, coffee, or the like.

3. the refuse from processing whale carcasses.

4. a reddish, muddy deposit in mining sluices.

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slumgullion British  

/ slʌmˈɡʌljən, ˈslʌmˌɡʌl- /

noun

1. slang an inexpensive stew

2. offal, esp the refuse from whale blubber

3. a reddish mud deposited in mine sluices

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Etymology

Origin of slumgullion

1840–50, compare Scots, Hiberno-English gullion quagmire, cesspool

Example Sentences

“A big slumgullion of legislation,” Mr. Whitehouse offered.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2018

Weldon deliciously calls this many-fathered creation “a crude, four-color slumgullion of borrowed ideas and stolen art.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2016

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

Really bad art is probably invulnerable to criticism, and so it is with this slumgullion.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was no sooner in bed than the biscuits she had gobbled for dinner started to make war on the slumgullion, and the lemonade began to have words with the blueberries.

From The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)