Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contemptible creature; a base, foul wretch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Low A mean, dirty wretch.
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- noun A
filthy , slobbering person; a sloven, a villain, a fiend, a louse. - noun A worthless person.
- noun A drunk, and/or an alcoholic
Etymologies
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Examples
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At second glance, though, Switters would have bet this sulky slubberdegullion couldn't tail the Statue of Liberty.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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At second glance, though, Switters would have bet this sulky slubberdegullion couldn't tail the Statue of Liberty.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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"Sacre matin, a back-hander on the jaw'd do you good, slubberdegullion -- you!
The Battle of the Strong — Volume 4 A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897
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"Sacre matin, a back-hander on the jaw'd do you good, slubberdegullion -- you!
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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"Sacre matin, a back-hander on the jaw'd do you good, slubberdegullion -- you!
The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897
chained_bear commented on the word slubberdegullion
Wow. The mouthfeel on this one is incredible. It makes you feel like you must be intoxicated, but you're really just pronouncing it perfectly.
January 9, 2008
reesetee commented on the word slubberdegullion
*wiping slobber from chin*
January 9, 2008
whichbe commented on the word slubberdegullion
A filthy, slobbering person. English, whatever its other merits, has as many disparaging words as one would possibly desire. The example that follows is from Sir Thomas Urquhart’s translation of Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel, dated 1653, which draws heavily on vocabulary used in Scotland in his time:
The bun-sellers or cake-makers were in nothing inclinable to their request; but, which was worse, did injure them most outrageously, called them prattling gabblers, lickorous gluttons, freckled bittors, mangy rascals, shite-a-bed scoundrels, drunken roysters, sly knaves, drowsy loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes, ruffian rogues, paltry customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoydens, flouting milksops, jeering companions, staring clowns, forlorn snakes, ninny lobcocks, scurvy sneaksbies, fondling fops, base loons, saucy coxcombs, idle lusks, scoffing braggarts, noddy meacocks, blockish grutnols, doddipol-joltheads, jobbernol goosecaps, foolish loggerheads, flutch calf-lollies, grouthead gnat-snappers, lob-dotterels, gaping changelings, codshead loobies, woodcock slangams, ninny-hammer flycatchers, noddypeak simpletons, turdy gut, shitten shepherds, and other suchlike defamatory epithets; saying further, that it was not for them to eat of these dainty cakes, but might very well content themselves with the coarse unranged bread, or to eat of the great brown household loaf.
You don’t hear invective like that any more, and few of us would understand it if we did. There’s enough material there for a year of Weird Words, but I’ve picked out slabberdegullion (a rare spelling of slubberdegullion), a word which nobody hearing it could possibly consider a compliment. There are examples of it on record from the seventeenth century down to the early twentieth but it appears now only as a deliberate archaism.
The experts disagree about where it came from. The first part is clearly English slobber, but the rest is less certain. It might be cullion, an old word for a testicle (it’s related to French couillon and Spanish cojones), which by the sixteenth century was a term of contempt for a man. It might instead conceivably be linked to the Scots dialect gullion for a quagmire or a pool of mud containing semi-liquid decayed vegetable matter, but that’s only recorded rather later.
(from World Wide Words)
May 21, 2008
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word slubberdegullion
"You're just a great slubberdegullion!"
Somehow, I don't see people taking me seriously...
July 18, 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word slubberdegullion
JM is opening the first slubberdegullion club in Brisbane - send a sample of drool and $100 and you're in!
April 2, 2010
hgould3 commented on the word slubberdegullion
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition.
September 29, 2010
VoraciousVerbivore commented on the word slubberdegullion
Also defined as "A consummate slob"
July 28, 2011