gullion

Jake was a stew-man, a soup-man, a slum-gullion man.

The Fourth R George Oliver Smith 1946

How can you hope to hold your job when a man is bidding for it who takes up his belly-band for breakfast, dines on slum-gullion and sucks his breath for supper; to whom literature is an unknown luxury, a bath a deplorable accident, and a crummy old blanket a comfortable bed?

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

Then he poured for us a beverage which he called "Slum gullion," and it is hard to think he was not inspired when he named it.

Roughing It, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872

Then he poured for us a beverage which he called "Slum gullion," and it is hard to think he was not inspired when he named it.

Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

"Slum gullion," and it is hard to think he was not inspired when he named it.

Roughing It 1871

Ye had to wipe the slum gullion of Eureka Gulch off your hands, Lacy "-- He stopped, gasped for breath, and then lifted his voice more savagely," And now, what's this?

The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales Bret Harte 1869

My mom could make a sack of groceries feed all six of us for days, making concoctions from leftovers that she gave names like goulash and slum gullion.

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