slum
suomi-englanti sanakirjaslum englannista suomeksi
slummi, köyhälistökortteli
käydä slummeissa, köyhäillä
Substantiivi
slum englanniksi
A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.
(syn)
{{quote-text|en|year=1855|author=Charles Dickens|chapter=Gambling|chapterurl=http://books.google.it/books?id=S_BLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA338|title=Household Words|volume=31
1927-29, (w), ''(w)'', translated 1940 by (w), Part I, Chapter xvi:
- I saw that most of those who were spending from eight to fifteen pounds monthly had the advantage of scholarships. I had before me examples of much simpler living. I came across a fair number of poor students living more humbly than I. One of them was staying in the slums in a room at two shillings a week and living on two pence worth of cocoa and bread per meal from Lockhart's cheap Cocoa Rooms.
(quote-journal)
(quote-book)|page=16|text=Pearson's London was what we now call central London, and much of it was slums. Today most of us wouldn't say no to a ''pied à terre'' in Clerkenwell, but in 1850 it was a slum. Drury Lane? A slum. Seven Dials and Covent Garden? Holborn and Finsbury? Slums.
Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.
(quote-book)
To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
(quote-book)|year=1984|page=4|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/brightlightsbigc0000mcin/page/4/mode/1up|isbn=0394726413|passage=When you meet the girl who wouldn't et cetera you will tell her that you are slumming, visiting your own six A.M. Lower East Side of the soul on a lark, stepping nimbly between the piles of garbage to the gay marimba rhythms in your head.
To saunter about in a disreputable manner.
Slumgullion; a meat-based stew.
(cap); humbug.
{{quote-text|en|year=1820|author=Thomas Moore; W. Simpkin; R. Marshall|title=Jack Randall's Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius
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