aslosh

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English

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Etymology

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From a- +‎ slosh.

Adjective

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aslosh (comparative more aslosh, superlative most aslosh)

  1. Sloshing; full of, covered or soaked (with or in a liquid).
    • 1972, John Brandi, Y Aun Hay Mas[1], Santa Barbara, CA: Christopher’s Books, page 66:
      Ladies aslosh in dirty streamwater bubbling into ditches to drain the beating rain.
    • 1994, Lance Olsen, Tonguing the Zeitgeist, San Francisco: Permeable Press, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 73,[2]
      He began to hack wetly, as though his lungs were aslosh with mud,
    • 2000, Mary Karr, chapter 23, in Cherry[3], Penguin, published 2001, page 268:
      So while you’d rather chew linoleum than dance with Effie—not to mention the fact that your bladder is aslosh—a refusal would open the door to interpretation.
  2. (figurative) Having a large quantity of, abounding (with or in something).
    • 1969, Aloïse Buckley Heath, chapter 21, in Will Mrs. Major Go to Hell?[4], New York: National Review, published 1990, page 198:
      I hope I’m not giving anyone the impression that Ben and I are not respecters of tradition, because the fact is that we’re simply aslosh with traditions.
    • 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin[5], London: Serpent’s Tail, page 286:
      [] the whole country aslosh in cash from a buoyant stock market, demand for the really dirt-cheap travel in which we specialized had dropped.

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