Meaning of slumgullion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A stew of meat and vegetables.
   countable, uncountable
2. A beverage made watery, such as weak coffee or tea.
   countable, uncountable
3. A reddish muddy deposit in mining sluices.
   countable, uncountable
4. A waste product or byproduct from processing whales or fish.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The “slumgullion” and “lipperings” or “dreenings” of the blubber—consisting of a mixture of the blood which issues from the fat-lean and the salt water and oil which flows from the blubber while the men are handling it as they hoist it aboard ship, stow it away, and prepare⟳ it for the try-pots—though discarded in the palmy days of whaling, are now carefully husbanded and amalgamated.”

“The slide⟳ received its name⟳ from a seafaring man who was reminded of slumgullion, the yellow residue from the blubber of a butchered whale.”

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