slabberdegullion n.
a filthy, slobbering fellow; also adj.
Laugh and Be Fat 44: Contaminous, pestiferous, preposterous, stygmaticall, slauonian, slubberdegullions. | ||
Custom of the Country I ii: Yes they are knit; but must this slubberdegullion Have her maidenhead now? | ||
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I Bk I 103: The bunsellers or cake-makers [...] did injure them most outrageously, calling them [...] slabberdegullion druggles, lubbardly louts. | (trans.)||
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. | ||
Cataplus 3: Upon a sudden then a rout Of Slubberdegullions lept out. | ||
Pagan Prince 29: The Arragonian Bakers [...] gave them ill Language, calling them Tooth-Gapers, Sherks, Shittabeds, Slubberdegullions, Liquorish Whelps. | ||
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. | (trans.)||
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Slubberdegullion, a slovenly, dirty, nasty fellow. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
Disappointment I i: Let me come to the slubberdegullion and I’ll skim him like a Munster potatoe. | ||
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Slubber de gullion. A dirty nasty fellow. | ||
Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785]. | ||
Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 18 Oct. 2/1: That foul apostate, that nasueous slubberdegullion! | ||
Newcastle Jrnl 20 Jan. 4/4: But no! — shabby sluberdegullions, they hadn’t the courage. | ||
Sherborne Mercury 27 Nov. 3/7: ‘Oh ye Yeovilians, conglomerated slubberdegullions!’. | ||
Goethe: a New Pantomime 192: Lobcock, loon, slabberdegullion! | ||
Examiner (London) 12 June 5/2: ‘Slubberdegullion, quit my house’. | ||
‘Scene in a London Flash-Panny’ 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. | ||
Coventry Standard 19 Aug. 4/4: If proof is wanted to prove Mason Jones to be a slubberdegullion of a poltroon [etc]. | ||
Fife Free Press 6 May 3/7: ‘Whoever wrote the letters [...] appears to be a slubberdegullion’. | ||
Sl. Dict. [as cit. 1859]. | ||
Aus. Sl. Dict. 76: Slubberdegullion, a dirty or mean fellow. | ||
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. | ||
Great Santini (1977) 496: Mom is a dangwallet, which means a spendthrift [...] Dad is a slubberdegullion, which is a paltry dirty wretch. |