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Hyphenation of slumgullion

How to hyphenate slumgullion

Because it is a word with a single syllable, slumgullion is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

slumgullion
Syllables Count
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Alpha-numeric Characters Count
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Haphenation done based on the Knuth-Liang word-division algorithm. The computed hyphenation pattern is: slumgullion

Definitions of slumgullion

slumgullion is defined as:

Definition 1 as noun

  • noun
    A stew of meat and vegetables.

    Synonyms: slum

  • noun
    A beverage made watery, such as weak coffee or tea.
  • noun
    A reddish muddy deposit in mining sluices.
  • noun
    A mixture of unrelated things, a jumble or hodgepodge.
  • noun
    A sperm whaleman's term, roughly equivalent to the right whaleman's "gurry" which, according to Herman Melville, "designates the dark, glutinous substance which is scraped off the back of the Greenland or Right Whale, and much of which covers the decks of those inferior souls who hunt that ignoble Leviathan."(Melville 323) Derivation for this term likely originates with the word "slobgollion" which is, according to Melville's Moby Dick, "an appellation original with the whaleman, and even so is the nature of the substance. It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting. I hold it to be the wondrously thin, ruptured Membranes of the case, coalescing." (Melville 323)

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