English Dictionary

slumgullion

/slʌmˈɡʌljən/

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.

I made a delicious slumgullion for dinner.

意味（1）

A stew of meat and vegetables.

Say...if anybody cares, this vat of slumgullion is as ready as it will ever be.

意味（2）

A beverage made watery, such as weak coffee or tea.

Then he poured for us a beverage which he called “Slumgullion,” and it is hard to think he was not inspired when he named it. It really pretended to be tea, but there was too much dish-rag, and sand, and old bacon-rind in it to deceive the intelligent traveler.

意味（3）

A reddish muddy deposit in mining sluices.

意味（4）

A mixture of unrelated things, a jumble or hodgepodge.

Aides are tossing around metaphors to describe the means by which other bills could find their way into the spending package. The last train leaving the station. Final ornaments on the Christmas tree. A big slumgullion of legislation, Mr. Whitehouse offered.

意味（5）

A waste product or byproduct from processing whales or fish.

There is another substance, and a very singular one, which turns up in the course of this business [of preparing sperm whale], but which I feel it to be very puzzling adequately to describe. It is called slobgollion[…] It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting.