slosh

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Etymology 1

(onomatopoeia); compare splash, splosh.

Verb

slosh (third-person singular simple present sloshes, present participle sloshing, simple past and past participle sloshed)

1. (intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

   The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.

2. (UK, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:

     She greeted me with a bright smile, and said: “Back already? Did you find it?” With a strong effort I mastered my emotion and replied curtly but civilly that the answer was in the negative. “No,” I said, “I did not find it.” “You can't have looked properly.” Again I was compelled to pause and remind myself that an English gentleman does not slosh a sitting redhead, no matter what the provocation.

Translations

of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily

• Dutch: klotsen (nl)
• French: éclabousser (fr)

• German: platschen (de), schwappen (de)
• Norwegian: skvalpe (no), skvulpe (no), plaske (no)

Noun

slosh (plural sloshes)

1. A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash

   As the show progressed, a dollop of backfin crabmeat and a slice of mozzarella was added to the veal, fresh sliced white mushrooms to the beef, followed by a slosh of white wine in one pan and a slosh of brandy in the other.

Coordinate terms

• splash

Etymology 2

By analogy with slash.

Noun

slosh (plural sloshes)

1. (computing) backslash, the character \.