splosh

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English

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic. Connected with splash and splish; compare also slosh.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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splosh (third-person singular simple present sploshes, present participle sploshing, simple past and past participle sploshed)

  1. To splash with a heavy splashing sound.
    splosh into the sea
    • 2009, John Ridley, A Conversation with the Mann:
      Sometimes someone would take a wrench to a fire hydrant, jam a crate up to its nozzle, turning the whole of it into a fountain for us kids to splosh around and play in.
  2. To traverse mushy or marshy wetlands.
  3. To spill or spill over.
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Noun

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splosh (countable and uncountable, plural sploshes)

  1. (countable) A heavy splashing sound.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A spilt or dropped liquid or semi-liquid substance.
    • 2008, Jill Mansell, The One You Really Want, Hachette U.K., →ISBN:
      Leaning forward, Rose saw the generous white splosh of bird poo decorating the tip of the woman’s expensive looking brown suede shoe.
    • 2011 [1962], Anthony Burgess, edited by Mark Rawlison, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page 43:
      [] a milk-jug and a milk-bottle going all drunk then scattering white splosh in all directions
  3. (uncountable, UK, slang) Tea (the drink).
    Give us a cup of splosh, love.