Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To spill or splash (a liquid) copiously or clumsily.
- intransitive verb To agitate in a liquid.
- intransitive verb To splash, wade, or flounder in water or another liquid.
- noun Slush.
- noun The sound of splashing liquid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
slush , 1. - noun A watery mess; something gulped down.
- To flounder in slush or soft mud.
- To go about recklessly or carelessly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
slush ,slushy .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun computing
backslash , the character\ . - verb intransitive, of a liquid To
shift chaotically ; tosplash noisily . - verb UK, colloquial, transitive To
punch (someone). - noun A quantity of a liquid; more than a
splash
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb walk through mud or mire
- verb spill or splash copiously or clumsily
- verb make a splashing sound
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And I have now seen -- I have seen some estimates from the Hurricane Center from what is called the slosh model that I was very familiar when I worked for the Weather Service that now some of these tides can be 31 feet tall today.
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"Ay, ay, sir!" came the response, faintly heard above the howl of the wind, the thunder of the surf on the rocks to leeward, the heavy "slosh" of a sea in over the bows, and the hair-raising slatting of the canvas overhead.
A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy Harry Collingwood 1886
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Note that this is an intentional drain of "slosh", or liquidity, from the banking system.
The daily irrelevant 2008
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"slosh" are disposed of, the unhappy foragers return.
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 Carlton McCarthy 1872
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And I let it all slosh around in the back of my brain, in the part normal people use for remembering bills, thinking about sex and making appointments to wash the dishes.
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You also need to give the ooze time to simmer and slosh, quiet time, creative time.
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Your organs squish and slosh sometimes even leaking.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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I've never gotten to the point where I say, Okay, I've got to hurry up and sing this, slosh over this and hurry up and get this out of the way because I know people want to here this.
Mike Ragogna: Motown & The Hitmen : Conversations with Smokey Robinson, Jimmy Ryan, and Sarah Sample Mike Ragogna 2010
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I asked, watching the goop slosh from side to side.
Odd Girl In Jo Whittemore 2011
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Those then slosh around for a while, and maybe eventually evolve into proper ideas that might be good for something.
elenaberu commented on the word slosh
But even detestable people have good ideas occasionally and Amis would be sloshing in his grave at how modern education began its calamitous slide
March 12, 2009
rolig commented on the word slosh
"sloshing in his grave"? Was Amis buried in a swamp?
March 12, 2009