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  • noun A splash or rush of water
  • verb of water To flow with a rush

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Examples

  • A rouseabout rose late, and, while the others were at breakfast, got an idea into his head that a good "sloosh" would freshen him up; so he mooched round until he found a big wooden bucket with a rope to it.

    Over the Sliprails Henry Lawson 1894

  • I was surprised and just that malenky bit poogly to sloosh Dim govoreeting that wise.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • Georgie said: "Uh?" but he was skorry enough with his nozh, the blade coming sloosh out of the handle, and we were on to each other.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • Tonight's invention : 4 thick lamb neck chops, coated in flour then browned in pan on high heat, 3 rashers, fried, then chopped, one Spanish onion, cooked in lamb/bacon fat with sloosh extra olive oil, rest of flour mixed in used about 2 tbsp.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Rachel 2006

  • Tonight's invention : 4 thick lamb neck chops, coated in flour then browned in pan on high heat, 3 rashers, fried, then chopped, one Spanish onion, cooked in lamb/bacon fat with sloosh extra olive oil, rest of flour mixed in used about 2 tbsp.

    Lamb and bacon casserole with Polish apple beer Rachel 2006

  • Ah, the joys of horrorshow nappies…slosh sloosh in the caboose.

    lost and found 2006

  • Cleans the tub - well, I'll sloosh it round so it doesn't leave a ring.

    catpewk Diary Entry catpewk 2004

  • If that wasn't worth a sloosh of pop whilst alone in the old research lab, then Geoffrey wasn't the man he thought he was.

    Gridlock Elton, Ben 1991

  • BURWASH The pleasureable cool sloosh of puddle water over the toes of your gumboots.

    The Meaning of Liff Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1983

  • You will not be surprised to hear that I got up the next morning feverish and unrefreshed, and I felt quite envious of Tom when I saw him holding his shortly-cropped bullet head under the spout of the pump in the back yard, waggling the handle awkwardly as he had what he called "a sloosh."

    The Golden Magnet George Manville Fenn 1870

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  • sloosh is used to refer to a lapping or sloshing sound or to describe an act of washing. It's in Webster's Third - the big unabridged.

    February 15, 2007