Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cut; a slash.
- Same as slash.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. colloq. A cut.
Examples
“Up the street come troops of the auxiliaries, black Africans and yellow Asiatics, beturbaned and befezed, and coolies swinging along with machine guns and mountain batteries on their heads, and the bare feet of all, in quick rhythm, going _slish, slish, slish_ through the pavement mud.”
“Up the street come troops of the auxiliaries, black Africans and yellow Asiatics, beturbaned and befezed, and coolies swinging along with machine guns and mountain batteries on their heads, and the bare feet of all, in quick rhythm, going slish, slish, slish through the pavement mud.”
“It's this damn medication, it screws with my belly and makes it go slish slosh slishety sloshety.”
“Were he obliged to do so, the author could describe it: each drip of sweat, each contraction of muscle, each pant, each moan, each slish of slippery tissue.”
“She empties the water down the tree, and it comes slish-sloshing down.”
“The slish of a line, the flutter of a fly dropping softly on the farther edge of the pool -- and then the shriek of your reel, buzzing up the quiet hillside, was answered by a loud snort, as the deer that lived there bounded away in alarm, calling her two fawns to follow.”
“Up the street come troops of the auxiliaries, black Africans and yellow Asiatics, beturbaned and befezed, and coolies swinging along with machine guns and mountain batteries on their heads, and the bare feet of all, in quick rhythm, going slish, slish, through the pavement mud.”
“He could tell by the uneven splash of the oars, the slish along the surface as”
“It arose in a low moan and mounted steadily to a shriek, gradually dying away in the distance, followed by the slish-slishing of the fine snow across the rotted shingles of the roof.”
“So Bearskin just rattled away the blows at the dragon -- slish, slash, snip, clip -- until all three heads were off, and there was an end of it.”
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