splorger, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

splorger n.

[? var. on splodger n.² ; but note Cohen Comments on Etymology XIII:1 (1/10/83): ‘Webster III under splodge — says “splash, slosh”, e.g. “splodged about the streets”. Maybe splodger “fellow” derived directly from this meaning of splodge, i.e. the reference was merely to someone walking through the snow or rain-soaked streets’]

(UK Und.) a fellow, a person.

1865

Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 96/1: This old ‘splorger’ begins to suspect, as we do, that there is a screw loose with him.