Crossword clues for slumgullion
slumgullion
Wiktionary
n. 1 A stew of meat and vegetables. 2 A beverage made watery, such as weak coffee or tea. 3 A reddish muddy deposit in mining sluices. 4 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)
WordNet
n. a thin stew of meat and vegetables
Wikipedia
Slumgullion may refer to:
- Carson Hill, California, formerly called Slumgullion
- Slumgullion Pass
- Slumgullion Earthflow
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Usage examples of "slumgullion".
The cooking must have tasted good to the doctor, for he passed his plate three times for slumgullion and ate so many biscuits he lost count.
She was no sooner in bed than the biscuits she had gobbled for dinner started to make war on the slumgullion, and the lemonade began to have words with the blueberries.
Hinpoha persisted until she had hit the paper once and then left to put her slumgullion over the fire, assisted by Lane Allen, who had followed her around since the first night he visited the camp.
Gladys cautioned every one, viewing with alarm the quantities of slumgullion and sandwiches that were being consumed.
It was just a pale collection of wooden stores and houses at the foot of Slumgullion Pass, kept more or less alive by tourists now that the silver mines were gone.
November, with a cold sun staring out of a blue-white sky, they ground up the twisted road across Slumgullion Pass in an old Ford.
At Denver they rented a car and drove to Lake City, coming into it behind Slumgullion Pass, which was pretty well iced over.
Throw in the local color, wads of it, and a bit of sentiment perhaps, but no slumgullion about political economy nor social strata or such stuff.
The calendar is filled with mystifying events such as nude bowling night, the Hobo Slumgullion, and Nudeoween.
I returned that evening for the slumgullion, close to a hundred people sat eating out of cans.
John owned the game at the Slumgullion, where I made my first foray behind the stick.
More fragrant memories arise of the superb slumgullion created by Rockaway Red out of the less said the better, and God knows where he is now.
Hobo Slumgullion, and we were instructed to bring a canned vegetable to the pavilion no later than noon.
The hold is a disaster, its neatly stacked and crated contents now Osterized into a slumgullion of shattered glass, splintered wood, foodstuffs, high explosives, and strategic minerals, all mingled with seawater so that it sloshes back and forth with the rocking of the dead U-boat.