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slosh en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /slɒʃ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /slɑʃ/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh.

Meanings

  1. (countable) A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.
    • We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.
  2. (countable) A sloshing sound or motion.
  3. (uncountable) Slush.
    • Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet. 2012, Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This, page 299:
  4. (countable, slang, uncountable) 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. 2005, Stuart Walton, Understanding, Choosing, and Enjoying Wine, page 86:
  5. (uncountable) 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. 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
sloshes Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

splash

Deriveds

sloshy

slosh en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /slɒʃ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /slɑʃ/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
    • The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.
  2. (of a liquid, transitive) To cause to slosh.
    • The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.
  3. (intransitive) To make a sloshing sound.
    • His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.
  4. (of a liquid, transitive) 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.
    • He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.
  5. (intransitive) to move noisily through water or other liquid.
    • The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.
  6. (UK, colloquial, transitive) 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 myself that an English gentleman does not slosh a sitting redhead, no matter what the provocation. 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:

Forms

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sloshing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sloshed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sloshed Tense=Past lexicographic
sloshes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

sloshingly · aslosh · sloshball · kerslosh

Synonyms

slush

Translations (28)

cs šplouchat (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · no plaske (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · es chacualear (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · it sciabordare (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · es borbotear (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · it scuotersi (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · no skvulpe (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · bg плискам се (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · eo surŝprucigi (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · it sbattere (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · pl zbełtać się (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · cs stříkat (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · cs cákat (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · es chapalear (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · fr éclabousser (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · es chapotear (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · es chapaletear (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · hu lötyög (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · cs šplíchat (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · eo ŝprucmakuli (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · nl klotsen (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · ru плескаться (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · de platschen (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · kix tǖjēijēi (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · cs vyšplíchnout (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · de schwappen (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · no skvalpe (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily) · pl bełtać się (of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily)

slosh en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /slɒʃ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /slɑʃ/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

By analogy with slash.

Meanings

  1. (slang) backslash, the character \.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
sloshes Number=Plur lexicographic