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Definition of Slumgullion
1. Noun. A thin stew of meat and vegetables.
Definition of Slumgullion
1. Noun. A stew of meat and vegetables. ¹
2. Noun. A beverage made watery, such as weak coffee or tea. ¹
3. Noun. A reddish muddy deposit in mining sluices. ¹
4. Noun. A sperm whaleman's term, roughly equivalent to the right whaleman's "gurry" which, according to Herman Melville, "designates the dark, glutinous substance which is scraped off the back of the Greenland or Right Whale, and much of which covers the decks of those inferior souls who hunt that ignoble Leviathan."(Melville 323) Derivation for this term likely originates with the word "slobgollion" which is, according to Melville's Moby Dick, "an appellation original with the whaleman, and even so is the nature of the substance. It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting. I hold it to be the wondrously thin, ruptured Membranes of the case, coalescing." (Melville 323) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slumgullion
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slumgullion
Literary usage of Slumgullion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journeys of Observation by Thomas Arthur Rickard (1907)
"H slumgullion GULCH — LANDSLIDES — THE CANNIBAL PLATEAU —A GRIM TALE —ROCK ...
slumgullion is commonly imputed to glacial action, but the observed facts do ..."
2. Camp Cookery by Horace Kephart (1910)
"slumgullion.—When the commissariat is reduced to bacon, corned beef, and hardtack,
try this sailor's dish, described by Jack London: Fry half a dozen slices ..."
3. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"Another good illustration of an extensive clay slide is that of the slumgullion
mud flow (Ref. 6) which dammed Lake Fork of the Gun- ni.son River near Lake ..."
4. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1906)
"A LONELY EIDE As I stepped into the slumgullion stage I saw that it was a dark
... The road from Wing- dam to slumgullion knew no other banditti than the ..."
5. Across the San Juan Mountains by Thomas Arthur Rickard (1903)
"In the case of slumgullion the porosity of the coarse layers of breccia permitted
of the entrance of water, which would reach down until a less porous ..."
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