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slumgullion

/ˌslʌmˈɡʌliən/

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noun

Ragoût de viande et de légumes

A stew of meat and vegetables.

Examples :

"After a long day of camping, the hikers were grateful for the hearty slumgullion that warmed them up. "

Après une longue journée de camping, les randonneurs étaient reconnaissants pour le copieux ragoût de viande et de légumes qui les a réchauffés.

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noun

Café ou thé léger

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

Examples :

"My grandmother always makes slumgullion with the leftover coffee grounds, so it's really weak and watery. "

Ma grand-mère prépare toujours du café ou du thé léger avec les restes de marc de café, donc c'est vraiment faible et aqueux.

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noun

Dépôt boueux rougeâtre dans les canaux d'extraction minière

A reddish muddy deposit in mining sluices.

Examples :

"After a long day of washing gravel, the mining sluice was filled with a thick, reddish slumgullion. "

Après une longue journée de lavage du gravier, le canal d'extraction minière était rempli d'un épais dépôt boueux rougeâtre.

geology material substance technical

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noun

Mélange, fouillis

A mixture of unrelated things, a jumble or hodgepodge.

Examples :

"The lost and found box at school was a slumgullion of mismatched socks, forgotten lunchboxes, and stray toys. "

La boîte des objets trouvés à l'école était un fouillis de chaussettes dépareillées, de boîtes à lunch oubliées et de jouets égarés.

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noun

Terme de baleinier, équivalent à 'gurry', une substance gluante et sombre.

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)

Examples :

"After a long day of processing whale blubber, the deckhands were covered in slumgullion. "

Après une longue journée de traitement de la graisse de baleine, les matelots étaient couverts de slumgullion.

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