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  • noun The state or quality of being slushy.

Etymologies

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From slushy +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Mercifully, the pace is priapic, keeping Usher's default slushiness under control.

    Usher: Raymond v Raymond 2010

  • Okay, we've heard about the terrible slushiness of children's book editing; now, let's hear something about writer strangeness--'damn' and otherwise...

    It Can't Really Be That Bad, Can It? Editorial Anonymous 2008

  • Disclaimer: I enjoyed the first book, despite some wincing at the slushiness.

    Four Hours and Out « Whatever 2007

  • Note, this a 5 on the slushiness scale not a 5 on a quality scale.

    The Occam’s Razor Theory of Literary Rejection « Whatever 2006

  • This slushiness, like his sporadic interest in spiritualism and the occult, is of exactly the sort that he was best at lampooning — most especially in the Princess Diana — like person of Madeleine Bassett, a ghastly girl who thinks that the stars are God's daisy-chain.

    The Honorable Schoolboy 2004

  • This slushiness, like his sporadic interest in spiritualism and the occult, is of exactly the sort that he was best at lampooning — most especially in the Princess Diana — like person of Madeleine Bassett, a ghastly girl who thinks that the stars are God's daisy-chain.

    The Honorable Schoolboy 2004

  • November 18th -- a day of ice-covered slushiness -- was held up owing to the insufficiency of the artillery barrage and the heavy enemy machine gun fire.

    The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 John W. [Editor] Arthur

  • The rain and the snow were fighting together, and producing that slushiness of atmosphere which obscures all scenery; added to which, the unfortunate foreknowledge that we were doomed to fifteen or sixteen hours of these combinations of misery, made it indeed a wretched day.

    Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

  • Strong supporting performances and atmospheric filmmaking by helmer Christophe Blanc ( "An Outgoing Woman") save the film from slushiness, but won't cause B.O. blizzards.

    Variety.com 2010

  • Grape Slush: a cup full of purple ice flakes-the right ratio of syrup to refreshing slushiness.

    Serious Eats: New York 2010

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