Posted on 12/05/2013 4:33:58 AM PST by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
slumgullion \sluhm-GUHL-yuhn, SLUHM-guhl-\, 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.
Example sentences:
"...d'yever eat good old fashioned slumgullion boy, 'taint nothin but scrambled eggs and potatoes all scrambled up together."
-- Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, 1958
We could not eat the bread or the meat, nor drink the "slumgullion."
-- Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872
Etymology:
Slumgullion is an Americanism dating back to the 1840s. It is perhaps related to the word cullion, which comes from the Latin term meaning "bag" or "testicle."
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I ordered a new dish at one of our favorite restaurants the other night. They said it wa “Beef short ribs pot pie”. It was really just a slumgullion in a crock with a crust streched over the top. It was delicious and I ordered it again the next night.
I ordered a new dish at one of our favorite restaurants the other night. They said it wa “Beef short ribs pot pie”. It was really just a slumgullion in a crock with a crust streched over the top. It was delicious and I ordered it again the next night.
Slumgullion, a magnificent word, much appreciated.
I had no idea slumgullion was an actual word. For a while my mother was married to a wonderful man from Kansas named Walter. He would make what I’ve always called “scrumgullion” by cooking up hamburger, bell peppers, onions, shell pasta, whatever else he could find, and tomato paste or sauce, herbs, and water. It was so good.
Now known as “economically-disadvantaged-area-gullion.”
I am pushing hard to finish mu kitchen so i can roast a chicken and make it’s remainders into a slumgullion.
This word sounds like it should describe where my ex wife now lives.
Yes. I didn’t mean to post that twice.
America, Barack has been sullyin’
Into a mishmash of socialist slumgullion
Take from rich, give to poor
‘til the poor work no more
Fed on welfare, their senses keep dullyin’
The legacy which Ted Kennedy has imparted upon this country is symbolized by the slumgullion which packs his coffin.
you’re remodeling? we did that in September, 3 weeks without a kitchen was a little rough. i love my new one though.
I wish I had more ribbons! A for you.
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