| 释义 |
sposh U.S.|spɒʃ|
[Imitative.]
Slush, mud.
1845in Bartlett Dict. Amer. (1848) 325 The streets were one shining level of black sposh. 1846Cheever Wand. Pilgrim xxiv. (1848) 134 Making our way..in this penetrating sposh. 1884Burroughs Birds & Poets 109 Yellow sposh and mud and water everywhere.
Hence ˈsposhy a., soft and watery.
1842Yale Lit. Mag. VIII. 96, I can't always decipher quail tracks—specially in sposhy weather. 1884S. O. Jewett Country Doctor iii. 22 The sposhy apples that grows in wet ground. |