Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Words: slubber-degullion

A nasty, paltry fellow. A slub is a roll of wool drawn out and only slightly twisted; hence to slubber, to twist loosely, to do things by halves, to perform a work carelessly. Degullion is compounded of the word “gull,” or the Cornish “gullan,” a simpleton. (E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898)

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