slush

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It was now beginning to thaw, and on all the frequented thoroughfares the slush was ankle-deep.

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  1. noun Partially melted snow or ice.
  2. noun Soft mud; slop; mire.
  3. noun Nautical Grease or fat discarded from a ship's galley.
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  • Or has PoD technology done nothing but make slush -- bound and priced like the wares of traditional publishers--available to the unsuspecting public? —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 01 - July 2003
  • I don't think you are fair in discounting the Shamwow cause it "smelled awful" after soaking up raspberry beer and snow slush, that is easily remedied by tossing the Shamwow into your washing machine ...
  • They were glad to have two places for them, in case one was discovered by an enemy stronger than themselves Autumn turned into winter, with snow, slush, and ice-cold rain. —  The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War
  • However, if you don't mind, we'll leave that for private discussion and not for political trading The chairman recovered That's all very well; but when we ask your people to make sacrifices for the principles of our party Principles of the party--slush! —  Sonnie-Boy's People
  • The early rains turn the vegetation into slush, and fill the, pools. —  The Personal Life of David Livingstone
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muck ·  sleet ·  mire ·  ooze ·  rainwater ·  puddle ·  silt ·  gravel ·  grime ·  mud ·  sawdust ·  sludge

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slush:   Slush
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  1. Perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian slask, sloppy weather.

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  1. Also slosh, q. v.; apparently a variant of sludge, slutch, which are variants of sleech, slitch, confused prob. with slud. The forms slush, slosh, also touch slash: see slosh, slash.
 

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