Meaning & use
Slubberdegullion
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(archaic) A dirty, slovenly, or worthless person.
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The old novel describes the tavern's regulars as a collection of slubberdegullions.
He called the lazy stable hand a slubberdegullion and sent him packing.
A note on using this word
A colorful seventeenth-century insult, likely from 'slobber' plus a mock-Latin ending, later used memorably by John Steinbeck in 'Cannery Row.'
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slobscoundrel
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