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.

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