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Slosh
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- 1 A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash. countable
"We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce."
- 2 backslash, the character \. slang
- 3 A sloshing sound or motion. countable
- 4 Slush. uncountable
"Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet."
- 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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- 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."
- 1 To shift chaotically; to splash noisily. intransitive
"The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran."
- 2 spill or splash copiously or clumsily wordnet
- 3 To cause to slosh. transitive
"The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath."
- 4 walk through mud or mire wordnet
- 5 To make a sloshing sound. intransitive
"His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked."
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- 6 make a splashing sound wordnet
- 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."
- 8 to move noisily through water or other liquid. intransitive
"The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school."
- 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
Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh.
Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh.
By analogy with slash.
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