slumgullion
IPA: sɫˈʌmgˈʌɫjʌn
noun
- A stew of meat and vegetables.
- A beverage made watery, such as weak coffee or tea.
- A reddish muddy deposit in mining sluices.
- A mixture of unrelated things, a jumble or hodgepodge.
- A waste product or byproduct from processing whales or fish.
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Examples of "slumgullion" in Sentences
- My husband's family calls it slumgullion.
- Slumgullion, one of the most horrific of my childhood memories.
- I've come across this one a few times, most recently with Slumgullion nail.
- With a mocking gurgle, about a dram of "slumgullion" passed into his mouth.
- Slumgullion Pass lies just a few miles to its northwest, along the same highway.
- His fondness for paddling in the ditches and "slumgullion" at one time suggested a water spaniel.
- His breast, legs, and feet -- when not reddened by "slumgullion," in which he was fond of wading -- were white.
- The name "Slumgullion Pass" came about because the color of the sliding mud reminded local gold miners of the muddy sediments, called slumgullion, in their sluice boxes.
- The saturated red soil overflowed the brim with that liquid ooze known as "slumgullion," and turned the crystal pool to the color of blood until the soil was washed away.
- A dank, fresh-fishy smell pervades the atmosphere; and such houses as were open to public view bore evident signs of inundation on the walls and 'slumgullion' on the floors.
- Station food isn't merely bad; it's condemned army bacon and "slumgullion," a concoction that "pretended to be tea" but contained "too much dish-rag, and sand, and old bacon-rind ... to deceive the intelligent traveler."
- •Kathy Eaton of Booneville, Miss., recalls a cast-iron-skillet-style potato dish called "slumgullion," or so she thinks, after watching an old episode of Gunsmoke, which she learned from her father, "who would be 103 this year.
- A few days after Raintree took it over, he was lookin 'round the garden, which old Sobriente had always kept shut up agin strangers, and he finds a lot of dried-up' slumgullion'* scattered all about the borders and beds, just as if the old man had been using it for fertilizing.