slosh
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slosh¹
- /slɒʃ/ UK
- /slɑʃ/ US
Where it comes from
Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh.
verb sloshes · sloshing · sloshed
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To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.
Similar: slush
- To cause to slosh. The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.
- To make a sloshing sound. His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.
- To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts. The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.
- to move noisily through water or other liquid. The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.
- To punch (someone). 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
noun sloshes
- A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash. We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.
- A sloshing sound or motion.
- Slush. Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.
- Inferior wine or other drink. In the Midi, Grenache dominates most of the traditional appellations. Corbières, Minervois, Fitou, Faugères — these were once bywords for rough-and-ready red slosh.
- A game related to billiards. Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty. We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.
slosh²
- /slɒʃ/ UK
- /slɑʃ/ US
Where it comes from
By analogy with slash.
noun sloshes
- backslash, the character \.
Translations
Every language
verb of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily
| Español | borbotear, chapotear, chapalear, chapaletear, chacualear |
|---|---|
| Français | éclabousser |
| Deutsch | platschen, schwappen |
| Italiano | scuotersi, sbattere, sciabordare |
| Русский | плескаться pleskatʹsja |
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