Slushy

//ˈslʌʃi// adj, noun, slang

adj, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of slushie (“flavoured frozen drink made with ice crystals”). alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    A kitchen helper. Australia, colloquial, slang
  3. 3
    A ship's cook. UK, obsolete, slang
Adjective
  1. 1
    Covered in slush.

    "I can remember, and not that long ago, when slushy mid-winter days like today always lead my feverish imagination down a murky hallway known as "shacking up.""

  2. 2
    Having the consistency of slush.
  3. 3
    Soupy; sentimental.
Adjective
  1. 1
    effusively or insincerely emotional wordnet
  2. 2
    being or resembling melting snow wordnet

Synonyms

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algidarcticbarfybatheticbatheticbelow zero

Example

More examples

"The giant panda matriarch came out of her den to find a slushy ice cake made with applesauce and filled with chunks of apples, carrots and yams."

Etymology

From slush + -y. In the sense of a cook, from the sense of slush meaning to refuse grease and fat collected in cooking.

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