SLOSH

slosh, slush, slosh around, slush around

(verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily; “slosh paint all over the walls”

squelch, squish, splash, splosh, slosh, slop

(verb) walk through mud or mire; “We had to splosh across the wet meadow”

splash, splosh, slosh, slush

(verb) make a splashing sound; “water was splashing on the floor”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

slosh (third-person singular simple present sloshes, present participle sloshing, simple past and past participle sloshed)

(intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

(transitive, of a liquid) To cause to slosh

(intransitive) To make a sloshing sound.

(transitive, of a liquid) To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts

(intransitive) to move noisily through water or other liquid.

(British, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).

Noun

slosh (countable and uncountable, plural sloshes)

(countable) A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.

(countable) A sloshing sound or motion.

(uncountable) Slush.

Coordinate terms

• splash

Etymology 2

Noun

slosh (plural sloshes)

(computing, slang) backslash, the character \.

Anagrams

• Sohls

Source: Wiktionary


Slosh, Slosh"y.

Definition: See Slush, Slushy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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