sloshyadj.

1797 B. Hawkins Let. 22 Feb. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1916) IX. 88 Flat piney sloshy land.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Sloshy, in a state of slosh.

1862 G. H. Kingsley Notes Sport & Trav. (1900) 379 London the foggy, with its dirty, sloshy, melting snow.

1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot xiii. 118 The sound of a footstep on the sloshy gravel walk.

1913 A. Lunn Harrovians ii. 35 Because..if they had form games some sloshy old chaw [Note i.e. Old Harrovian, a term of affection] would write to the papers.

1920 Glasgow Herald 30 Apr. 9 They are living not merely upon vegetables, but sloshy vegetables.

1924 E. F. Benson David of King's vii. 136 ‘Positively his last appearance,’ said David. ‘Rather theatrical, but not sloshy.’

1933 Daily Mirror 26 Oct. 12/4 ‘Sloshy talk’ is simply the perpetration of such phrases as ‘too, too marvellous’ and ‘utterly divine’.

1949 H. Miller Sexus (1969) xiii. 305 I felt her sloshy boobs joggling me but I was too intent on pursuing the ramifications of Coleridge's amazing mind to let her vegetable appendages disturb me.

1957 D. Piper Eng. Face x. 244 Broader, indeed sloshy, effects were needed by an emulator of Reynolds, Daniel Gardner.

1978 C. Storr Winter's End ii. 37 You thought it was like in those rotten stories... I've read enough sloshy stuff in my time.

1924 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 339/2 Dunvègan, with an accent grave, is more attractive than Slapin, however sloshily one pronounces the consonants, or however widely opens the vowels.

1894 Amateur Gardening 4 Feb. 391 The drainage of such a path will be imperfect, hence ‘sloshiness’ in wet weather.