Citations:slumgullion

English citations of slumgullion

• 1979, Colorado Railroad Museum, Narrow Gauge Byways in the San Juans, page 27:

  Slide was named either because the exposed splotched yellow earth reminded one of slumgullion, the refuse that drains from a whale being cut up for its blubber, or, if one believes the more popular version, because it looked like a famous western stew made by early miners dumping whatever they had available into one pot.

• 1987 March, Richard Ellis, “Australia’s southern seas”, in National Geographic, volume 171, page 296:

  Following Rodney’s instructions, we ladled overboard an odoriferous slumgullion of tuna meat, dried blood, fish oils, and other secret ingredients that he guaranteed to be tantalizing to sharks.

• 2018, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Emily Cochrane, “Shutdown Looms and Priorities Stack Up as Congress Races Toward Session’s End”, in The New York Times:

  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.