Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Partially melted snow or ice.
- n. Soft mud; slop; mire.
- n. Nautical Grease or fat discarded from a ship's galley.
- n. A greasy compound used as a lubricant for machinery.
- n. Maudlin speech or writing; sentimental drivel.
- n. A drink made of flavored syrup poured over crushed ice.
- n. Informal Unsolicited manuscripts submitted to a publisher.
- v. To daub (machinery) with slush.
- v. To fill (joints in masonry) with mortar.
- v. Nautical To wash down (a deck) by splashing with water.
- v. To splash or soak with slush or mud.
- v. To walk or proceed through slush.
- v. To make a splashing or slushy sound.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Sludge, or watery mire; soft mud.
- n. Melting snow; snow and water mixed.
- n. A mixture of grease and other materials used as a lubricator.
- n. The refuse of the cook's galley on board ship, especially grease what is not used, as for slushing the masts, etc., formerly became the cook's perquisite at the end of the voyage.
- n. A mixture of white lead and lime with which the bright parts of machinery are covered to prevent their rusting.
- To apply slush to; grease, lubricate, or polish with slush: as, to slush the masts.
- To wash roughly: as, to slush a floor with water
- To cover with a mixture of white lead and lime, as the bright parts of machinery.
- To fill, as the joints and spaces between the bricks or stones of a wall, with mortar or cement: usually with up: as, to slush up a wall.
- To slop; spill.
Wiktionary
- n. Half-melted snow or ice
- n. Liquid mud or mire
- n. flavored shaved ice served as a drink
- v. To smear with slushy liquid or grease.
- v. To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.
- v. To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Soft mud.
- n. A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.
- n. A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
- n. The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
- n. (Mach.) A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.
- v. To smear with slush or grease.
- v. To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
WordNet 3.0
- v. spill or splash copiously or clumsily
- n. partially melted snow
- v. make a splashing sound
Etymologies
- Perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian slask, sloppy weather. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And then I was thinking to myself that it was a good job that we had the stern, manly feeling to comfort us of our hard work being our duty, when I heard the _slush, slush, slush, slush_, sound of feet coming along the trenches, and then my sergeant said:”
“Having had some time to think about it, the caller and I shouldn't have used the term slush fund; that was incorrect," Angle said.”
“Now the dirty tactics must be financed through dirty money in what I call a slush fund and what I predict the law will call”
Brent Budowsky: The Hillary Clinton Slush Fund: Dirty Tactics, Dirty Money
“Owing to the fact that the energy which bears it downward is through friction converted into heat, a partial melting of the mass may take place, which converts it into what we call slush, or a mixture of snow and water.”
Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
“They were looking for what they called slush funds stashed away by the former president, but no such funds existed," a Seongnam police official told AFP, refusing to disclose his name.”
“Having had some time to think about it, the caller and I shouldn't have used the term slush fund; that was incorrect.”
The Washington Post: Angle: I shouldn't have used term "slush fund"
“And I'm one of those who's ambivalent about the issue -- on the one hand, I'd love to see more women in the F&SF TOC, on the other, it does look as though the ratio of women in the slush is the same as women selling ... and it's often a matter of editorial taste, which is something GVG is very honest about, publicly, and I really respect that, but on the other hand ...”
“I'd have thought issues of volume in slush would make the query process more effective.”
“Jasper, these are some outrageously uniformed comments you are making … States are set to receive at least $120 billion (15% of the entire stimulus) in slush fund money (supposedly allocated for and FMAP increase and education funds) that can be spent however they want b/c money is fungible.”
Matthew Yglesias » Guest Post: Furloughed at the University of Maryland
“States are set to receive at least $120 billion (15% of the entire stimulus) in slush fund money (supposedly allocated for and FMAP increase and education funds) that can be spent however they want b/c money is fungible.”
Matthew Yglesias » Guest Post: Furloughed at the University of Maryland
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slush’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Sounds
words that describe sound
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Words For Novel (Part 3)
fibers, gypsy, polymer, schism, syphilitic garden..., holocaust, scrutinant, contemplate, aftermath, consequence, deadlock, impasse and 150 more...
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Walking in the snow
If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, I would suggest this other list.
snow, snotsicle, scarf, snowsuit, mittens, gloves, hat, layers, boots, eyelashes freezin..., chemical heat pack, coveralls and 31 more...
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Winter Words
Words that have to do with the Winter season.
snow, coat, hibernation, ice, christmas, cold, sleet, hail, december, january, evergreen, frost and 11 more...
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words my students purport to love
utilize, pudding, Indeed, kumquat, spleen, schadenfreude, slush, juxtapose, discombobulate, brackish, resuscitate, vapid
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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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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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 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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huck finnian
ain't, stretchers, without, sivilize, hogshead, victuals, bulrushers, tolerable, goggles, middling, reckoned, who-whooing and 287 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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norrell's Words
hush, dove, euphoria, nebulae, bryn mawr, darling, phoenix, nape, cream, butterscotch, cosmos, frost and 190 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Ugliest Words Ever
words that I refuse to say out loud.
tuna, uranus, bulbous, vaginal, rectum, cunnilingus, flatulance, pedagogy, blooper, booger, beefy, polyp and 116 more...
Tweets
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mn Slush is the main problem. Jan 11, 2010
reesetee Eeew. Feb 20, 2008
chained_bear He was "uncommonly generous with his slush, the fat that rose to the surface of his coppers with the seething meat. Apart from what was needed to grease mast and yards, the slush was the cook's perquisite; yet Orrage was of so liberal a disposition that he would often let his shipmates have a mugful to fry their crumbled biscuit in, or chance-caught fish, though tallow-chandlers would give him two pounds ten a barrel in almost any port."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 90 Feb 20, 2008
brtom ...all that kind of rot and slush ... HF 25 Dec 6, 2006