Slosh

//slɑʃ// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash. countable

    "We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce."

  2. 2
    backslash, the character \. slang
  3. 3
    A sloshing sound or motion. countable
  4. 4
    Slush. uncountable

    "Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet."

  5. 5
    Inferior wine or other drink. countable, slang, uncountable

    "In the Midi, Grenache dominates most of the traditional appellations. Corbières, Minervois, Fitou, Faugères — these were once bywords for rough-and-ready red slosh."

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  1. 6
    A game related to billiards. uncountable

    "Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty. We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh."

Verb
  1. 1
    To shift chaotically; to splash noisily. intransitive

    "The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran."

  2. 2
    spill or splash copiously or clumsily wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to slosh. transitive

    "The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath."

  4. 4
    walk through mud or mire wordnet
  5. 5
    To make a sloshing sound. intransitive

    "His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked."

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  1. 6
    make a splashing sound wordnet
  2. 7
    To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts. transitive

    "The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk."

  3. 8
    to move noisily through water or other liquid. intransitive

    "The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school."

  4. 9
    To punch (someone). British, colloquial, transitive

    "She greeted me with a bright smile, and said: “Back already? Did you find it?” With a strong effort I mastered my emotion and replied curtly but civilly that the answer was in the negative. “No,” I said, “I did not find it.” “You can't have looked properly.” Again I was compelled to pause and remind myself that an English gentleman does not slosh a sitting redhead, no matter what the provocation."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh.

Etymology 3

By analogy with slash.

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