Green’s Dictionary of Slang

browsing and sluicing n.

[coined and most commonly used by P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), but echoed by many of his fans; but note earlier cit. 1885, referring to cannibalism]

eating and drinking.

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[[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Feb. 5/2: Still, now that it is known that only six-months’ imprisonment ‘hangs’ to browsing on boy, that article of diet may in time become popular.].
[US]Wodehouse in Cosmopolitan 68 88: I vote we go to the Cosmopolis [...] The browsing and sluicing isn't bad there.
[UK]Wodehouse Indiscretions of Archie Ch. vii: By the way, touching the matter of browsing and sluicing. What do I feed him on?
[UK]Cornishman 18 Apr. 3/2: Mrs Crosbie Garstin is [...] not Mr P.G. Wodehouse [but] he has deserted the historical novel for the ‘browsing and sluicing’ manner of Mr Wodehouse.
[UK]Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 102: The browsing and sluicing had been of the highest quality.
Dly Mirror 18 Nov. 10/1: Mr Anthony Eden returned with a party of Dominion representatives after a browsing and sluicing match.
[UK]Wodehouse Mating Season 51: The browsing and sluicing being concluded, the females rose.
[Scot]Chambers Jrnl Jan. 474/1: I determined that there should be no mistake about the browsing and sluicing at my H.Q.
Oxford Mag. 4 68/1: How pleasant to be Mr Eliot ... or failing that supreme bliss how scarcely less pleasant to be the Head of an Oxbridge college. The lolly is all right, the browsing and sluicing are excellent.
[UK]Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves 108: Generally these rural pubs are all right in the matter of browsing.
P. Howard London’s River 24: After the browsing and sluicing [...] ‘Then went the cuppes so merrily about that many of the Frenchmen were faine to be led to their beddes’.
C. & R. Mortimer letter 5 Nov. in Dear Lupin (2014) [ebook] On Friday we go to the Mayhew Sanders box at Cheltenham where I hope the browsing and sluicing will be of a high order.
R.W.F. Poole Arthur James & I 34: Some determined attention to the browsing and sluicing, if it is of the required standard (high), enables one to endure for the umpteenth time Colonel Potleigh's story of how he felt a little sikh whilst pig sticking in India.