Green’s Dictionary of Slang

slabberdegullion n.

also slubberdegullion, slobberdegullion
[Du. overslubberen, to wade through mud + SE slabber, to drool]

a filthy, slobbering fellow; also adj.

[UK]J. Taylor Laugh and Be Fat 44: Contaminous, pestiferous, preposterous, stygmaticall, slauonian, slubberdegullions.
[UK]Fletcher Custom of the Country I ii: Yes they are knit; but must this slubberdegullion Have her maidenhead now?
[UK]Urquhart (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I Bk I 103: The bunsellers or cake-makers [...] did injure them most outrageously, calling them [...] slabberdegullion druggles, lubbardly louts.
[UK] Butler Hudibras I iii 886: Although thou hast deserv’d, / Base Slubberdegullion, to be serv’d / As thou did’st vow to deal with me.
[UK]M. Atkins Cataplus 3: Upon a sudden then a rout Of Slubberdegullions lept out.
[UK]Pagan Prince 29: The Arragonian Bakers [...] gave them ill Language, calling them Tooth-Gapers, Sherks, Shittabeds, Slubberdegullions, Liquorish Whelps.
[UK]Motteux (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk V 556: The scabby slabberdegullions still waited for us at the port, expecting to be greased in the fist.
[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Slubberdegullion, a slovenly, dirty, nasty fellow.
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[US]‘Andrew Barton’ Disappointment I i: Let me come to the slubberdegullion and I’ll skim him like a Munster potatoe.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Slubber de gullion. A dirty nasty fellow.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
[UK]Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 18 Oct. 2/1: That foul apostate, that nasueous slubberdegullion!
[UK]Newcastle Jrnl 20 Jan. 4/4: But no! — shabby sluberdegullions, they hadn’t the courage.
[UK]Sherborne Mercury 27 Nov. 3/7: ‘Oh ye Yeovilians, conglomerated slubberdegullions!’.
[UK]E.V. Kenealy Goethe: a New Pantomime 192: Lobcock, loon, slabberdegullion!
[UK]Examiner (London) 12 June 5/2: ‘Slubberdegullion, quit my house’.
[US] ‘Scene in a London Flash-Panny’ Matsell Vocabulum 98: A slubber de gullion named Harry Long, who wanted to pass for an out-and-out cracksman, though he was merely a diver.
[UK]Coventry Standard 19 Aug. 4/4: If proof is wanted to prove Mason Jones to be a slubberdegullion of a poltroon [etc].
[Scot]Fife Free Press 6 May 3/7: ‘Whoever wrote the letters [...] appears to be a slubberdegullion’.
[US]Trumble Sl. Dict. [as cit. 1859].
[Aus]Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 76: Slubberdegullion, a dirty or mean fellow.
[UK]Taunton Courier (Somerset) 14 Dec. 4/6: The Australian called his brother a ‘gully-mawdry,’ and his wife a ‘slabberdegullion’.
Ttaler (London) 30 Aug. 46/1: Those semi-scientific slabberdegullions who are always snooping around for snags.
[US]P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 496: Mom is a dangwallet, which means a spendthrift [...] Dad is a slubberdegullion, which is a paltry dirty wretch.