Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To spill or splash (a liquid) copiously or clumsily: slosh paint on the floor.
- v. To agitate in a liquid: slosh clothes in a solution of bleach and detergent.
- v. To splash, wade, or flounder in water or another liquid: sloshed through the creek.
- n. Slush.
- n. The sound of splashing liquid.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as slush, 1.
- n. A watery mess; something gulped down.
- To flounder in slush or soft mud.
- To go about recklessly or carelessly.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive, of a liquid To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
- v. UK, colloquial, transitive To punch (someone).
- n. A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash
- n. computing backslash, the character \.
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- v. walk through mud or mire
- v. spill or splash copiously or clumsily
- v. make a splashing sound
Etymologies
- By analogy with slash. (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps blend of slop1 and slush. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And I have now seen -- I have seen some estimates from the Hurricane Center from what is called the slosh model that I was very familiar when I worked for the Weather Service that now some of these tides can be 31 feet tall today.”
“Ay, ay, sir!" came the response, faintly heard above the howl of the wind, the thunder of the surf on the rocks to leeward, the heavy "slosh" of a sea in over the bows, and the hair-raising slatting of the canvas overhead.”
“Note that this is an intentional drain of "slosh", or liquidity, from the banking system.”
“slosh" are disposed of, the unhappy foragers return.”
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865
“Your organs squish and slosh sometimes even leaking.”
“I asked, watching the goop slosh from side to side.”
“Those then slosh around for a while, and maybe eventually evolve into proper ideas that might be good for something.”
“And I let it all slosh around in the back of my brain, in the part normal people use for remembering bills, thinking about sex and making appointments to wash the dishes.”
“You also need to give the ooze time to simmer and slosh, quiet time, creative time.”
“I've never gotten to the point where I say, Okay, I've got to hurry up and sing this, slosh over this and hurry up and get this out of the way because I know people want to here this.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slosh’.
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UK - slang
chin wag, arse about, bollock, starkers, sweet Fanny Adams, skive, shufti, codswallop, rhyming slang, bollocks, nookie, skew-whiff and 208 more...
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Words that can be spelled on an upsid...
Imagine my joy when I was wearing my calculator watch and was first introduced to someone named Leslie - there was exactly enough room on the display for 317537.14.
Edit: I've discove...hi, hello, leslie, sheesh, she, bells, hells, hog, boss, goggles, he, bob and 233 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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kirstenio's Words
lascivious, transcendant, phantasmagoria, salacious, beatitude, solitude, pseudo, pretentious, inanity, sublimation, clobber, obscurity and 186 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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Mal
slush, slosh, trudge, straggle, stagger, boot, tooth, beldam
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Kapow! (I'm Batman)
Sound effects from the show. Swiped from here: http://www.batmania.com.ar/paginas/serie_onomatopeyas_cantidad.htm
aieee, aiieee, awk, awkkkkkk, bam, bang, bang-eth, bap, biff, bloop, blurp, boff and 69 more...
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bbagins's Words
prowess, melancholy, serendipity, canonical, wretch, surmise, satirical, petrify, enunciate, oxymoron, oxymoron, dolt and 87 more...
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verb
revel, stagger, vex, swipe, pounce, delve, gambol, romp, rollick, cavort, frolic, rave and 7 more...
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ENG
shenanigan, scab, make-or-break chance, to do s.o a disse..., wean, graze, trite, hype-mongering, slipper, chew up, keychain, stash and 23 more...
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Onomatopoeia
Words that imitate sounds.
bam, bamf, bang, boom, snikt, ping, plink, plonk, boing, whoosh, kaboom, crash and 68 more...
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Move
drift, pounce, seethe, dash, strew, rove, flung, unleash, flourish, stagger, flounce, scoot and 11 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for slosh.
rolig "sloshing in his grave"? Was Amis buried in a swamp? Mar 11, 2009
elenaberu But even detestable people have good ideas occasionally and Amis would be sloshing in his grave at how modern education began its calamitous slide Mar 11, 2009