slumgullion

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The saturated red soil overflowed the brim with that liquid ooze known as "slumgullion," and turned the crystal pool to the color of blood until the soil was washed away.

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  1. noun A watery meat stew.

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  1. Perhaps slum, muddy deposit in a mining sluice + dialectal gullion, mud (perhaps from Irish Gaelic goilín, pit).

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  1. apparently from slum+ -gullion as in slubberdegullion, etc.
 

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/sləmˈgəlyən/
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