slosh

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /slɒʃ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /slɑʃ/

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Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic; 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.

   Synonym: slush

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

2. (transitive, of a liquid) To cause to slosh.

   The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.

3. (intransitive) To make a sloshing sound.

   His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.

4. (transitive, of a liquid) To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.

   The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.

   He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.

5. (intransitive) to move noisily through water or other liquid.

   The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.

6. (British, 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.

Derived terms

• aslosh

Translations

of a liquid, to shift chaotically; to splash noisily

• Bulgarian: плискам се (pliskam se)
• Dutch: klotsen (nl)
• Esperanto: surŝprucigi, ŝprucmakuli
• French: éclabousser (fr)
• German: platschen (de), schwappen (de)
• Italian: scuotersi (it), sbattere (it), sciabordare
• Norwegian: skvalpe, skvulpe, plaske (no)
• Polish: bełtać się impf, zbełtać się pf
• Russian: плескаться (ru) (pleskatʹsja)

Noun

slosh (countable and uncountable, plural sloshes)

1. (countable) A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.

   We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.

2. (countable) A sloshing sound or motion.
3. (uncountable) Slush.
   • 2012, Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This, page 299:

     Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.

4. (slang) Inferior wine or other drink.
   • 2005, Stuart Walton, Understanding, Choosing, and Enjoying Wine, page 86:

     In the Midi, Grenache dominates most of the traditional appellations. Corbières, Minervois, Fitou, Faugères — these were once bywords for rough-and-ready red slosh.

5. (uncountable) A game related to billiards.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt:

     Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty.
     We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.

Coordinate terms

• splash

Derived terms

• sloshy

Etymology 2

By analogy with slash.

Noun

slosh (plural sloshes)

1. (computing, slang) backslash, the character \.

Anagrams

• Sohls