slush-bucket

But the captain was a coarse, vulgar man, and he said, "Oh, that be blowed! that wasn't any proof that he knew how to wash dishes or handle a slush-bucket, and he guessed he didn't want him."

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

We found them stowed away in every imaginable place of concealment, but they were scented out, and dragged before the Ocean Deity, where they were solemnly lathered from the slush-bucket, and shaved with the iron hoop, according to immemorial usage.

The Romance of the Civil War 1903

But the captain was a coarse, vulgar man, and he said, "Oh, that be blowed! that wasn't any proof that he knew how to wash dishes or handle a slush-bucket, and he guessed he didn't want him."

The Story of the Good Little Boy 1875

I want a slush-bucket and a brush; I'm only fit for a roustabout.

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

'And then serve it all up in a slush-bucket, and invite the neighbours and sail in!'

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Mark Twain 1872

But the captain was a coarse, vulgar man, and he said, "Oh, that be blowed! that wasn't any proof that he knew how to wash dishes or handle a slush-bucket, and he guessed he didn't want him."

Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

I wish it were in refined taste to apply a rudely and ruggedly descriptive epithet to that literary slush-bucket, so as to give one an accurate idea of what it is like.

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Mark Twain 1872

But the captain was a coarse, vulgar man, and he said, "Oh, that be blowed! that wasn't any proof that he knew how to wash dishes or handle a slush-bucket, and he guessed he didn't want him."

Sketches New and Old, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872

I want a slush-bucket and a brush; I'm only fit for a roustabout.

Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. Mark Twain 1872

I want a slush-bucket and a brush; I'm only fit for a roustabout.

Life on the Mississippi 1870