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It is called slobgollion; an appellation original with the whalemen, and even so is the nature of the substance.
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It is called slobgollion; an appellation original with the whalemen, and even so is the nature of the substance.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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It is called slobgollion; an appellation original with the whalemen, and even so is the nature of the substance.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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It is called slobgollion; an appellation original with the whalemen, and even so is the nature of the substance.
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"Cap'n, we're 'bout wore out with whale meat an 'slobgollion.
In the Days of Poor Richard Irving Bacheller 1904
yarb commented on the word slobgollion
There is another substance, and a very singular one, which turns up in the course of this business, but which I feel it to be very puzzling adequately to describe. It is called slobgollion; an appellation original with the whalemen, and even so is the nature of the substance. It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 94
July 29, 2008