DEFINITIONS CONTINUED NOUN 5. a muddy deposit in a mining sluice (slang) 6. offal or refuse of fish of any kind; also, the watery refuse mixed with blood and oil which drains from blubber (American) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ? from slum (n.) ore reduced to a very fine powder in water, so as to form a kind of thin ore-mud (usually as slums) + -gullion, as in 'slubberdegullion' etc.) 1874 - A Dictionary of Slang, John Hotten (as per E-NED for beverage); earlier example (1869) shown below (for a representative) From: Lippincott's Monthly Magazine:
A Popular Journal of General Literature Volume 3, 1869 Breitmann in Politics VIII. Showing how Mr. Hiram Twine "Played Off" on Smith. P. 500
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