sloshn.
/slɒʃ/, U.S. /slɑʃ/ 1. Slush, sludge.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [noun] > thin or soft
addleOE
slougha1225
mirec1390
slurc1440
slurryc1440
sludge1702
slush1772
slop1796
slosh1808
stabble1821
sposh1836
sleck1840
flop1844
squad1847
slather1876
1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 342 Now that it is converted into good wholesome slosh, I resume my morning walks.
1851 Illustr. London News 27 Sept. 395/2 High fur-trimmed boots, the very things for American sloughs and slosh.
1887 J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel (1892) 50 I care not a feather for slime or for slosh!
2.
a. Watery, weak, or unappetizing drink; watery, sodden, or unappetizing food.
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the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [noun] > sloppy food
pap1286
messa1500
pults?1550
slop1658
slip-slop1675
soss1691
slop-dash1817
slosh1819
sozzle1823
slush1898
the world > food and drink > drink > types or qualities of beverage > [noun] > watery drink
swish-swasha1549
lap1567
wish-wash1786
slosh1819
slumgullion1872
gnat's piss1959
1819 ‘R. Rabelais the Younger’ Abeillard & Heloisa 198 A pow'rful dose of slosh administer'd by way of emetic.
1861 F. 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.
1923 E. Blunden Christ's Hospital 201 Slosh, boiled rice.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 163 Any kind of milk pudding is ‘slosh’ or ‘baby pudding’.
1980 Telegraph (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.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > [noun] > specific types of literature > inferior
bum fodder1654
slosh1894
subliterature1906
bumf1917
pulp1928
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > weak writing or discourse
wash1548
insipidness1711
writation1757
milk-and-water1792
wish-wash1842
slush1869
hogwash1870
insipidity1875
slosh1894
1894 G. 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.
1896 Q. 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.
1915 E. 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.
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the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > a quantity of
slosh1888
1888 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 375 Corn-cake washed down with a generous slosh of whisky.
4. A blow, an act of striking.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow
dintc897
swengOE
shutec1000
kill?c1225
swipc1275
stroke1297
dentc1325
touchc1325
knock1377
knalc1380
swapc1384
woundc1384
smitinga1398
lush?a1400
sowa1400
swaipa1400
wapc1400
smita1425
popc1425
rumbelowc1425
hitc1450
clope1481
rimmel1487
blow1488
dinga1500
quartera1500
ruska1500
tucka1500
recounterc1515
palta1522
nolpc1540
swoop1544
push1561
smot1566
veny1578
remnant1580
venue1591
cuff1610
poltc1610
dust1611
tank1686
devel1787
dunching1789
flack1823
swinge1823
looder1825
thrash1840
dolk1861
thresh1863
mace-blow1879
pulsation1891
nosebleeder1921
slosh1936
smackeroo1942
dab-
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas x. 107 I recalled that I had noticed her hand quiver once or twice, as if itching for the slosh.
1977 Daily 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.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > varieties of game
carambole1775
portobello1777
carambole game1807
go-back game1839
pyramid1850
pin pool1864
shell-out1866
pocket billiards1871
pocket pool1877
snooker('s) pool1889
puff billiards1897
kelly1898
slosh1938
bar billiards1966
1938 S. Beckett Murphy ix. 168 A hypomanic teaching slosh to a Korsakow's syndrome.
1951 G. Frankau Oliver Trenton xxiii. 180 His brother-in-law was teaching her to play slosh.
1961 E. Waugh Unconditional Surrender i. iv. 60 Guy spent the remaining hours of his fortieth birthday at Bellamy's playing ‘slosh’.
1976 Daily Tel. 29 Apr. 18 The equipment was suitable not only for billiards but also for ‘slosh’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
sloshv.1
/slɒʃ/, U.S. /slɑʃ/ 1. intransitive. To splash about in mud or wet.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > splash or move about in (shallow) water
swalter?a1400
puddle1440
swalperc1540
swatter?1553
poss1575
soss1575
dabble1611
dibble1622
switter?a1800
plouter1808
squatter1808
slosh1844
splosh1930
1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen ii. 39 Then, on we went, dripping, and sloshing.
1847 Ld. Haddo Mem. (1866) I. 16 We..slosh through the moor to a shepherd's house.
1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 286 I then slipped, slid, and sloshed down into Balaclava.
2.
a. U.S. To move aimlessly; to hang or loaf about.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > idly or aimlessly
wantonc1550
random1561
sponge1825
slosh1854
to scull around1921
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)] > idle or loaf
luskc1330
lubber1530
to play the truant, -s1560
lazea1592
lazy1612
meecha1625
lounge1671
saunter1672
sloungea1682
slive1707
soss1711
lolpoop1722
muzz1758
shack1787
hulkc1793
creolize1802
maroon1808
shackle1809
sidle1828
slinge1834
sossle1837
loaf1838
mike1838
to sit around1844
hawm1847
wanton1847
sozzle1848
mooch1851
slosh1854
bum1857
flane1876
slummock1877
dead-beat1881
to lop about1881
scow1901
scowbank1901
stall1916
doss1937
plotz1941
lig1960
loon1969
1854 in Bartlett (1859)
1864 Daily Tel. 29 Aug. I am the rather loafing about Canada. I am ‘sloshing around’, as the Louisiana negroes..are said to ‘slosh’.
1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand vi. 26 I was just sorter sloshin' around loose-like.
b. To talk loosely or irrelevantly. U.S.
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1880 Harper's Mag. Sept. 648/1 The Court..let him slosh around for a minute, when matters sort o' regulated themselves.
3.
a. To make a splashing sound.
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1888 [implied in: F. Cowper Caedwalla 54 They could just hear the sloshing sound made by his feet as he got into the mud. (at sloshing n. 1)].
b. Of liquid: to splash; to flow in streams.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)]
runeOE
flowa1000
fleetc1175
stretchc1275
slide1390
fleamc1465
pour1538
slip1596
streek1598
strain1612
put1670
rindle1863
slosha1953
a1953 E. O'Neill Touch of Poet (1957) i. 35 When he attempts to raise the glass to his lips the water sloshes over his hand.
1969 L. 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. transitive.
a. To pour or dash (liquid); to splash, throw, pour, or swallow carelessly. Also figurative. Usually with adverbs colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > put or move carelessly
shoot1833
slosh1875
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or fact of pouring or being poured > pour [verb (transitive)] > carelessly
slosh1875
1875 Chicago Tribune 3 Sept. 2/5 The Ring-paid scribblers and papers will slosh on the usual amount of whitewash.
1885 Cent. Mag. Nov. 63/2 If mining records was ever kep' as they'd ought to be, and not sloshed round so public like.
1899 G. 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.
1902 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 29 July It pours over it the same oleaginous language that it once sloshed on Governor Roosevelt of New York.
1926 E. Ferber Show Boat x. 221 Often he sloshed down whole gallons of river water before she came.
1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind liv. 934 He picked up the decanter and sloshed a glassful, untidily.
1945 Everybody's Digest Aug. 86 He sloshed on his sombrero and went outta there, heatin' his axles.
a1953 E. O'Neill Touch of Poet (1957) iii. 100 He sloshes whiskey from the decanter into both their glasses.
1960 J. Stroud Shorn Lamb xxii. 239 It had..attic bedrooms and Harry used to go up there and slosh paint about.
1964 L. 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. colloquial.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or fact of pouring or being poured > pour [verb (transitive)] > on or upon
insheda1382
infusec1420
infound?1440
slakec1440
superinfund1599
affuse1649
affund1657
superfuse1657
slosh1912
1912 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.
1917 H. Garland Son of Middle Border xxviii. 371 I generally managed to slosh myself with cold water from the well.
1979 Amer. Poetry Rev. Mar. 26/2 Rain began to pelt the cars and slosh the yard and spatter down the flowers.
5. colloquial. To hit, to strike; to crush, to defeat. Also figurative. Cf. slash v.1 2b.
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society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > conquer or overcome
overcomeeOE
shendc893
awinc1000
overwinOE
overheaveOE
to lay downa1225
mate?c1225
discomfitc1230
win1297
dauntc1300
cumber1303
scomfit1303
fenkc1320
to bear downc1330
confoundc1330
confusec1330
to do, put arrear1330
oversetc1330
vanquishc1330
conquerc1374
overthrowc1375
oppressc1380
outfighta1382
to put downa1382
discomfortc1384
threshc1384
vencuea1400
depressc1400
venque?1402
ding?a1425
cumrayc1425
to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425
to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430
distrussc1430
supprisec1440
ascomfita1450
to do stress?c1450
victorya1470
to make (win) a conquest1477
convanquish1483
conquest1485
defeat1485
oversailc1485
conques1488
discomfish1488
fulyie1488
distress1489
overpress1489
cravent1490
utter?1533
to give (a person) the overthrow1536
debel1542
convince1548
foil1548
out-war1548
profligate1548
proflige?c1550
expugnate1568
expugn1570
victor1576
dismay1596
damnify1598
triumph1605
convict1607
overman1609
thrash1609
beat1611
debellate1611
import1624
to cut to (or in) pieces1632
maitrise1636
worst1636
forcea1641
outfight1650
outgeneral1767
to cut up1803
smash1813
slosh1890
ream1918
hammer1948
the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object
drepeOE
smitec1200
buffet?c1225
strike1377
rapa1400
seta1400
frontc1400
ballc1450
throw1488
to bear (a person) a blow1530
fetch1556
douse1559
knetcha1564
slat1577
to hit any one a blow1597
wherret1599
alapate1609
shock1614
baske1642
measure1652
plump1785
jow1802
nobble1841
scuff1841
clump1864
bust1873
plonk1874
to sock it to1877
dot1881
biff1888
dong1889
slosh1890
to soak it to1892
to cop (a person) one1898
poke1906
to hang one on1908
bop1931
clonk1949
the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by crushing or treading
crowd1598
to tread to death1726
Juggernaut1830
slosh1918
the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated in [verb (transitive)] > defeat or overthrow (a person or thing)
prostrate1531
downthrow1563
annihilate1757
slosh1921
1890 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 11 We sloshed you with Martinis, an' it wasn't 'ardly fair; But for all the odds agin' you,..you broke the square.
1904 E. Nesbit Phoenix & Carpet v. 94 I say, slosh 'em..and get clear off with the swag.
1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iv. ii. 881 I wouldn't half slosh his jaw in, if I was a man.
1918 R. 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.
1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress xv Except for sloshing that policeman, you haven't done anything athletic for years.
1921 A. S. M. Hutchinson If Winter Comes ii. vii. 138 These Balkan chaps set to, to slosh Turkey.
1933 Punch 18 Oct. 421/1 ‘I wish to contradict the rumour that I wish to slosh Sir Stafford Cripps,’ says Mr. Ernest Bevin.
1967 N. Freeling Strike Out 75 Somebody sloshed him, if I may be allowed the word.
a1974 R. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† sloshv.2
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To lap up or swallow greedily.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously
forswallowOE
gulch?c1225
afretea1350
moucha1350
glop1362
gloup1362
forglut1393
worrya1400
globbec1400
forsling1481
slonk1481
franch1519
gull1530
to eat up1535
to swallow up1535
engorge1541
gulp1542
ramp1542
slosh1548
raven1557
slop1575
yolp1579
devour1586
to throw oneself on1592
paunch1599
tire1599
glut1600
batten1604
frample1606
gobbet1607
to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616
to make a (also one's) meal of1622
gorge1631
demolish1639
gourmanda1657
guttle1685
to gawp up1728
nyam1790
gamp1805
slummock1808
annihilate1815
gollop1823
punish1825
engulf1829
hog1836
scoff1846
brosier1850
to pack away1855
wolf1861
locust1868
wallop1892
guts1934
murder1935
woof1943
pelicana1953
pig1979
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus 2 Pet. in Paraphr. New Test. II. 19 The dogge slosseth vp agayn that he hath once caste vp.
1553 tr. E. Bonner in tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obediencia: Oration B iiij Ye bishop of Rome..will easyly content himselfe, specially whan there is one morsell or other layde to him to slosshe.
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