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slumgullion
[< Am.E a fanciful coinage for something viscid and thick, as mud]
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n.
a kind of stew made of whatever is available.
Quotations
1902
"Slumgullion," she replied curtly, and thereafter the meal went on in silence.
1919
When the bacon was cooked the chef lifted it out on the point of his knife and stirred some flour into the gravy, adding water, preparing the well-known delicacy of the trail known as slumgullion.
1966
. . . we ate what we called slumgullion--cheese, macaroni, and everything, all thrown into the same pot.