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aslosh en · ADJ

Etymology

From a- + slosh.

Meanings

1. Sloshing; full of, covered or soaked (with or in a liquid).
   • 1994, Lance Olsen, Tonguing the Zeitgeist, San Francisco: Permeable Press, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 73, He began to hack wetly, as though his lungs were aslosh with mud,
   • Ladies aslosh in dirty streamwater bubbling into ditches to drain the beating rain. 1972, John Brandi, Y Aun Hay Mas, Santa Barbara, CA: Christopher’s Books, page 66:
   • So while you’d rather chew linoleum than dance with Effie—not to mention the fact that your bladder is aslosh—a refusal would open the door to interpretation. 2000, Mary Karr, chapter 23, in Cherry, Penguin, published 2001, page 268:
2. (figuratively) Having a large quantity of, abounding (with or in something).
   • I hope I’m not giving anyone the impression that Ben and I are not respecters of tradition, because the fact is that we’re simply aslosh with traditions. 1969, Aloïse Buckley Heath, chapter 21, in Will Mrs. Major Go to Hell?, New York: National Review, published 1990, page 198:
   • […] the whole country aslosh in cash from a buoyant stock market, demand for the really dirt-cheap travel in which we specialized had dropped. 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, London: Serpent’s Tail, page 286:

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Synonyms

awash