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
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
This story could have been sheer slumgullion, but under Sam Peckinpah's tasteful direction it is a minor chef-d'oeuvre among westerns.
From Time Magazine Archive
The meals are all alike—a potato, a slice of something like bacon, some gray stuff called bread, and a cup of muddy, semi-liquid coffee like that which the California miners call "slickers" or "slumgullion."
From Travels in Alaska by John Muir
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