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Slughorn
The following fictional characters are staff members and denizens of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books written by J. K. Rowling.
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Slughorn
Slughorn can refer to several things and one person. It is an obsolete form of the word slogan, closer to its derivation from the Scots Gaelic sluagh-ghairm. In turn this influenced the pseudo-Medieval poetry of Thomas Chatterton. For example, in a poem about the Battle of Hastings he writes "some caught a slughorne and an onsett wounde", meaning "some picked up a slughorn and sounded a charge". A slughorn in this context appears to be some kind of trumpet. However, in a footnote to another usage of the word, Chatterton defines it as "not unlike a hautboy". The Medieval English word hautboy is the origin of the modern word oboe and has never referred to any instrument comparable to a trumpet. Chatterton's usage inspired Robert Browning in his poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, in particular the last stanza in which the hero sees the ghosts of all those who died trying to reach the Dark Tower before him. I saw them and I knew them all. And yet Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, And blew. "Child Roland to the Dark Tower came." . Horace Slughorn is a character in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Slughorn
slug′horn, n. a word used to denote a kind of horn, but really a corruption of slogan.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Slughorn in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Slughorn in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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