slubberdegullion

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  1. A contemptible creature; a base, foul wretch. [Low.] Who so is sped is matcht with a woman, He may weep without the help of an onyon, He's an oxe and an asse, and a slubberdegullion. Musarum Deliciæ (1656), p. 79. (Halliwell.) Quoth she, “Although thou hast deserv'd, Base Slubberdegullion, to be serv'd As thou didst vow to deal with me, If thou hadst got the victory.” S. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 886.

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  1. Also slabberdegullion; from slubber or slabber + -de-, insignificant or as in hobbledehoy, + gullion, variant of cullion, a base fellow. Cf. slubberer, a mischievous, meddling person; Danish slubbert, a scamp.
 

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