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

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

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 Muir, John