sploshn.
/splɒʃ/, U.S. /splɑʃ/ colloquial and dialect.
1. The dull, splashing sound of the impact of a hard object striking or struck by something wet and soft; the impact itself. Also, a quantity of liquid suddenly dashed or dropped.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > splashing
plashing1542
flounce1622
dash1785
plash1808
splasha1822
splosh1857
slush1880
sloshing1888
sploshing1929
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [noun] > an instance or the result of
dash1570
dashing1591
splasha1822
splosh1857
splather1877
the world > movement > impact > [noun] > soft > and wet
splosh1954
1857 C. E. DeLong Jrnl. 26 Feb. in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1930) 9 133 Storming like fury..a mixture of snow and rain..splosh almost knee deep.
1895 E. M. Stooke Not Exactly xi. 280 Arter all 'tis but dree minutes or zo of acoot zufferin' in th' grip o' Bill Brooks, then a bit of a splosh, an' hout the beggur comes.
1916 J. K. Bangs From Pillar to Post xii. 235 The committee hustled me into the hall with no more damage than one rather slush splosh of snow.
1919 W. Deeping Second Youth xii. 112 The roof had dropped a splosh of water on Uncle Reginald's new hat.
1929 W. E. Collinson Spoken Eng. 92 If you want to see some splashing I'd better..go down the chute or try a ‘bunny splosh’.
1936 A. G. Street Gentleman of Party i. 11 An hour of steady splosh, splosh, splosh, of their horses' feet in thick batter of mud which creamed over the road.
1954 L. M. Boston Children of Green Knowe 64 A [snow]flake landed on his cheek... He felt the splosh.
1983 ‘F. Parrish’ Bait on Hook ii. 35 'At splosh o' paint on the mudguard. Got reason to remember 'at, I 'ave.
2. slang. Money.
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
silverc825
feec870
pennieseOE
wortheOE
mintOE
scata1122
spense?c1225
spendinga1290
sumc1300
gooda1325
moneya1325
cattlec1330
muckc1330
reasona1382
pecunyc1400
gilt1497
argentc1500
gelta1529
Mammon1539
ale silver1541
scruff1559
the sinews of war1560
sterling1565
lour1567
will-do-all1583
shell1591
trasha1592
quinyie1596
brass1597
pecuniary1604
dust1607
nomisma1614
countera1616
cross and pilea1625
gingerbreada1625
rhinoa1628
cash1646
grig1657
spanker1663
cole1673
goree1699
mopus1699
quid1699
ribbin1699
bustle1763
necessary1772
stuff1775
needfula1777
iron1785
(the) Spanish1788
pecuniar1793
kelter1807
dibs1812
steven1812
pewter1814
brad1819
pogue1819
rent1823
stumpy1828
posh1830
L. S. D.1835
rivetc1835
tin1836
mint sauce1839
nobbins1846
ochre1846
dingbat1848
dough1848
cheese1850
California1851
mali1851
ducat1853
pay dirt1853
boodle?1856
dinero1856
scad1856
the shiny1856
spondulicks1857
rust1858
soap1860
sugar1862
coin1874
filthy1876
wampum1876
ooftish1877
shekel1883
oil1885
oof1885
mon1888
Jack1890
sploshc1890
bees and honey1892
spending-brass1896
stiff1897
mazuma1900
mazoom1901
cabbage1903
lettuce1903
Oscar Asche1905
jingle1906
doubloons1908
kale1912
scratch1914
green1917
oscar1917
snow1925
poke1926
oodle1930
potatos1931
bread1935
moolah1936
acker1939
moo1941
lolly1943
loot1943
poppy1943
mazoola1944
dosh1953
bickies1966
lovely jubbly1990
scrilla1994
c1890 H. Wright 'E dunno where 'e Are (song) 5 Since Jack Jones come into that little bit o' splosh.
1902 G. N. Boothby My Strangest Case iii. iv. 166 I reckon we ain't a-goin' to see no splosh this 'ere trip.
1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin vi. 100 The show's orf 'less I kin raise some splosh some'ow.
1924 Westm. Gaz. (weekly ed.) 30 Aug. 526/3 The gentleman in the Old Kent Road who came into a little bit of splosh.
1950 P. G. Wodehouse Nothing Serious 216 The jolliness of having all that splosh in the old sock.
1967 A. Wilson No Laughing Matter ii. 82 Intentions need a bit of splosh to back em up.
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3. slang (originally English regional (London)). Tea.
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1959 F. Norman Stand on Me xv. 175 He bought me a cup of splosh and then we sat round rabbiting away about how things weren't like they was in the old days.
1964 C. Dale Other People viii. 150 Look, I gotta get to work. Sharon's give 'er a cup of splosh.
1994 Guardian 16 Dec. (Friday section) 18/3 Favourite meal: American-style breakfast with beans instead of bacon; orange juice and a cup of splosh.
2011 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 8 Jan. 11 You can have any colour tea as long as it's brown. What is sometimes known as ‘builder's splosh’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
sploshint.adv.v.
colloquial and dialect.
A. int. (and adv.)
‘Splash!’; with a splash; in a splashing manner.
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1890 R. C. Lehmann Harry Fludyer 47 Such larks when you heard the ball go splosh on a man's hat!
1901 J. Prior Forest Folk xi. 111 Nell continued to turn the handle of her old barrel churn. Splash! splosh! went the cream.
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey ii. ix. 194 Down came death—splosh!—and a creature wiped out, like a fly on a wall.
1926 Somerset Year Bk. 54 She brought down th' liddle shutter again splosh-bang.
B. v.
1. transitive. To splash (something); to cause (something) to move with a splashing sound.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)]
flouse1567
plash1596
splash1762
jaup?a1800
sozzle1845
souse1859
splosh1904
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)] > bespatter > said of the liquid
spatter1837
splosh1904
1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 678/2 (S. Not.) What are yer sploshin the watter about for?
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves iii. 30 I began to sing like a bally nightingale as I sploshed the sponge away.
2. intransitive. To move with a splash.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (intransitive)]
aflasha1387
flouse1567
plash1596
splash1715
splather1877
splosh1930
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [interjection]
splosh1930
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [adverb] > with a splash
splash1795
splosh1930
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
1930 R. Campbell Poems 10 Jack Squire through his own teardrops sploshes.
1931 W. Faulkner in Amer. Mercury Mar. 261/2 She made the sound into the cup and the coffee sploshed out on to her hands and her dress.
1941 W. Fortescue Trampled Lilies v. 61 I sploshed through the morass of mud and manure.
1966 M. Woodhouse Tree Frog iii. 24 He was sploshing around in a quicksand.
1978 S. Radley Death & Maiden i. 6 He sploshed on down the muddy track.
Derivatives
ˈsploshing n.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > splashing
plashing1542
flounce1622
dash1785
plash1808
splasha1822
splosh1857
slush1880
sloshing1888
sploshing1929
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [noun] > action or sound of
splasha1822
plout1822
sploshing1929
1929 W. Deeping Roper's Row xxx. 334 The sound of debate would cease suddenly. Boards creaked. Sploshings and sandpaperings recommenced.
1974 P. Dickinson Poison Oracle v. 115 The awkward sploshings of his paddle..had been the loudest sounds in the marsh.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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