SPLOSH

spatter, splatter, plash, splash, splosh, swash

(verb) dash a liquid upon or against; “The mother splashed the baby’s face with water”

sprinkle, splash, splosh

(verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force; “She splashed the water around her”

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

Verb

splosh (third-person singular simple present sploshes, present participle sploshing, simple past and past participle sploshed)

To make a heavy splashing sound.

To traverse mushy or marshy wetlands.

To spill or spill over.

Noun

splosh (countable and uncountable, plural sploshes)

(countable) A heavy splashing sound.

(uncountable, UK, slang) Tea (the drink).

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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