英语词汇slumgullion的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

slumgullion. By the end of the 19th century slumgullion meant a meat and vegetable stew in America, but the word started out meaning “slime.” Slum, a mispronunciation of slime, had first meant the scummy liquid left over in the tryworks af- ter blubber was processed aboard whaling ships. By mid- century slum came to mean a stew. Then miners in the 1849 gold rush borrowed slum, for “soup,” added gullion, an English dialect word meaning “mud,” and used slumgullion to mean the soupy liquid resulting from sluicing. Slumgullions, in turn, seemed to make a funny word for soup to some miners and this became its primary meaning.

词汇	slumgullion
词源	slumgullion. By the end of the 19th century slumgullion meant a meat and vegetable stew in America, but the word started out meaning “slime.” Slum, a mispronunciation of slime, had first meant the scummy liquid left over in the tryworks af- ter blubber was processed aboard whaling ships. By mid- century slum came to mean a stew. Then miners in the 1849 gold rush borrowed slum, for “soup,” added gullion, an English dialect word meaning “mud,” and used slumgullion to mean the soupy liquid resulting from sluicing. Slumgullions, in turn, seemed to make a funny word for soup to some miners and this became its primary meaning.
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