subs. phr. (nautical).—See quot.
1883. W. C. RUSSELL, Sailors’ Language, xii. I have known many a strong stomach, made food-proof by years of pork eaten with molasses, and biscuit alive with worms, to be utterly capsized, by the mere smell of soup-and-bouilli. Jack calls it ‘SOAP-AND-BULLION, one onion to a gallon of water,’ and this fairly expresses the character of the nauseous compound.
