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▪ I. slosh, n.|slɒʃ|
[Cf. next and slush n.1]
1. Slush, sludge.
1814Southey Lett. (1856) II. 342 Now that it is converted into good wholesome slosh, I resume my morning walks. 1851Illustr. Lond. News 27 Sept. 395/2 High fur-trimmed boots, the very things for American sloughs and slosh. 1887J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstr. (1892) 50, I care not a feather for slime or for slosh!
2. a. Watery, weak, or unappetizing drink; watery, sodden, or unappetizing food.
1819‘R. Rabelais the Younger’ Abeillard & Heloisa 198 A pow'rful dose of slosh administer'd by way of emetic. 1861F. W. Robinson No Church viii, ‘Beer, brandy, rum, gin, anything but slosh,’ he muttered, as Mary placed a cup of tea at his side. 1899‘A. Raine’ Berwen Banks 156 Ay don't want her cup o' tea! Never could bear the slosh. 1923Blunden Christ's Hospital 201 Slosh, boiled rice. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 163 Any kind of milk pudding is ‘slosh’ or ‘baby pudding’. 1980Telegraph (Brisbane) 16 Jan. 2/3 Honesty in advertising. A sign outside a Noosa Heads fast food shop ‘American Slosh’.
b. Weak and trifling work or writing.
1894G. B. Shaw Let. 2 June (1965) I. 440 The assumption that society likes the sort of loyal, constitutional, jingo, pietistic slosh it has to pretend to like. 1896Q. Rev. July 194 Rossetti in confounding all previous schools under the term ‘slosh’ is as much out of court as Ruskin in ignoring Dutch painting. 1915E. M. Forster Let. 2 Aug. in P. N. Furbank E. M. Forster (1977) II. i. 19 He [sc. Rupert Brooke] was essentially hard: his hatred of slosh went rather too deep.
3. A quantity of some liquid.
1888Cornh. Mag. Oct. 375 Corn-cake washed down with a generous slosh of whisky.
4. A blow, an act of striking.
1936Wodehouse Laughing Gas x. 107, I recalled that I had noticed her hand quiver once or twice, as if itching for the slosh. 1977Daily Mirror 12 Apr. 20/5 (caption) I'll give you such a slosh when I get up from here.
5. A game played on a billiard table with six coloured balls and one white, with which each player tries to pocket the coloured balls in a certain order.
1938[see hypomanic n.]. 1951G. Frankau Oliver Trenton xxiii. 180 His brother-in-law was teaching her to play slosh. 1961E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender i. iv. 60 Guy spent the remaining hours of his fortieth birthday at Bellamy's playing ‘slosh’. 1976Daily Tel. 29 Apr. 18 The equipment was suitable not only for billiards but also for ‘slosh’.
▪ II. slosh, v.1|slɒʃ|
[f. prec. or imitative.]
1. intr. To splash about in mud or wet.
1844Kinglake Eothen ii, Then on we went, dripping and sloshing. 1847Ld. Haddo Mem. (1866) I. 16 We..slosh through the moor to a shepherd's house. 1894Sir J. D. Astley 50 Yrs. Life I. 286, I then slipped, slid, and sloshed down into Balaclava.
2. U.S. To move aimlessly; to hang or loaf about.
1854in Bartlett (1859). 1864Daily Telegr. 29 Aug., I am the rather loafing about Canada. I am ‘sloshing around’, as the Louisiana negroes..are said to ‘slosh’. 1879Tourgee Fool's Errand vi. 26, I was just sorter sloshin' around loose-like.
3. a. To make a splashing sound.
1888, etc. [implied at sloshing vbl. n.1]
b. Of liquid: to splash; to flow in streams.
a1953E. O'Neill Touch of Poet (1957) i. 35 When he attempts to raise the glass to his lips the water sloshes over his hand. 1969L. Michaels Going Places 59, I might, as I toppled, blood sloshing through my lips, beg forgiveness. 1977‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy i. 29 The rain poured off them..sloshing in red rivulets round their ankles.
4. trans.
a. To pour or dash (liquid); to splash, throw, pour, or swallow carelessly. Also fig. Usu. with advbs. colloq.
1875Chicago Tribune 3 Sept. 2/5 The Ring-paid scribblers and papers will slosh on the usual amount of whitewash. 1885Century Mag. Nov. 63/2 If mining records was ever kep' as they'd ought to be, and not sloshed round so public like. 1899G. B. Shaw Let. 26 Apr. (1972) II. 85, I dipped into the book.., and sloshed down a heap of words... But it is a scandalously poor job of a review. 1926E. Ferber Show Boat x. 221 Often he sloshed down whole gallons of river water before she came. 1936M. Mitchell Gone with Wind liv. 934 He picked up the decanter and sloshed a glassful, untidily. 1945Everybody's Digest Aug. 86 He sloshed on his sombrero and went outta there, heatin' his axles. a1953E. O'Neill Touch of Poet (1957) iii. 100 He sloshes whiskey from the decanter into both their glasses. 1960J. Stroud Shorn Lamb xxii. 239 It had..attic bedrooms and Harry used to go up there and slosh paint about. 1964L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xv. 91 He laughed a deep, manly laugh and sloshed down some beer. 1978‘J. Lymington’ Waking of Stone vi. 149 She sloshed out porridge into plates.
b. To pour or dash liquid upon, to douse. colloq.
1912G. W. Deeping Sincerity ii. 18, I can't stand these counter-bouncing little beasts like Threadgold. He's only fit to slosh people with treacle and water. 1917H. Garland Son of Border xxviii. 371, I generally managed to slosh myself with cold water from the well. 1979Amer. Poetry Rev. Mar./Apr. 26/2 Rain began to pelt the cars and slosh the yard and spatter down the flowers.
5. colloq. To hit, to strike; to crush, to defeat. Also fig. Cf. slash v. 2 b.
1890Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) 11 We sloshed you with Martinis, an' it wasn't 'ardly fair; But for all the odds agin' you, Fuzzy-Wuz, you broke the square. 1904E. Nesbit Phoenix & Carpet v. 94, I say, slosh 'em..and get clear off with the swag. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister Street II. iv. ii. 881, I wouldn't half slosh his jaw in, if I was a man. 1918R. P. Fleming Let. in D. Hart-Davis Peter Fleming (1974) ii. 33, I saw one [adder] coiled up asleep in some bushes, and picked it up by the tail..and we took it into the open and sloshed it. 1921A. S. M. Hutchinson If Winter Comes ii. vii. 138 These Balkan chaps set to, to slosh Turkey. 1933Punch 18 Oct. 421/1 ‘I wish to contradict the rumour that I wish to slosh Sir Stafford Cripps,’ says Mr. Ernest Bevin. 1967N. Freeling Strike out where not Applicable 75 Somebody sloshed him, if I may be allowed the word. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 399 Characteristically enough, at the end the committee chairman who had been wildest in his wrath moved the vote of thanks and said, ‘Well, we have to have a good go sometimes at sloshing our Labour Minister.’ 1977‘J. Gash’ Judas Pair x. 118 I've sloshed her..sometimes when she'd got me mad.
▪ III. † slosh, v.2 Obs. rare.
In 6 sloss(h)e.
[Imitative: cf. prec. and sloff v.]
trans. To lap up or swallow greedily.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. 2 Ep. Peter II. 19 The dogge slosseth vp agayn that he hath once caste vp. 1553Bale Gardiner's De Vera Obed. B iiij, Y⊇ bishop of Rome..will easyly content himselfe, specially whan there is one morsell or other layde to him to slosshe. |