/slɒʃ/, /slɑʃ/
OriginOnomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh.
- intransitiveTo shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
“The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.”
- transitiveTo cause to slosh.
“The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.”
- intransitiveTo make a sloshing sound.
“His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.”
- transitiveTo pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.
“The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.”
“He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.”
- intransitiveto move noisily through water or other liquid.
“The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.”
- British, colloquial, transitiveTo punch (someone).
“She greeted me with a bright smile, and said: “Back already? Did you find it?” With a strong effort I mastered my emotion and replied curtly but civilly that the answer was in the negative. “No,” I sa”
- countableA quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.
“We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.”
- countableA sloshing sound or motion.
- uncountableSlush.
“Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.”
- countable, slang, uncountableInferior wine or other drink.
“In the Midi, Grenache dominates most of the traditional appellations. Corbières, Minervois, Fitou, Faugères — these were once bywords for rough-and-ready red slosh.”
- uncountableA game related to billiards.
“Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty.
We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.”
- slangbackslash, the character \.
Formssloshes(present, singular, third-person) · sloshing(participle, present) · sloshed(participle, past) · sloshed(past) · sloshes(plural)