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

21 May 2025

SOMETIME

(adverb) at some indefinite or unstated time; “let’s get together sometime”; “everything has to end sometime”; “It was to be printed sometime later”


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The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.

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