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SLUGHORN
Definition of SLUGHORN
noun
A certain fictional wind instrument.
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Where it comes from
See slogan. Sense 1 (“wind instrument”) is due to an incorrect use of the word slughorn (sense 2: “battle cry”) by the English poet Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) in his 1760s pseudo-Medieval poetry. He described the fictional instrument in footnotes as “warlike instruments of music” (Ælla, a Tragycal Enterlude), “a musical instrument not unlike a hautboy” (Eclogue the Second), and “war trumpets” (Battle of Hastings (No. 2)). The erroneous sense was then continued by the English poet and playwright Robert Browning (1812–1889) in his 1855 poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came. The use by English author Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) in 1989 is a deliberate allusion to Chatterton.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SLUGHORN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 79 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SLUGHORN starts with S and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read GHLNORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SLUGHO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
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