slosh

present singular third person sloshes · participle present sloshing · participle past sloshed · past sloshed

1. intransitiveTo shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

   The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.

   Synonyms: slush

2. transitiveTo cause to slosh.

   The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.

3. intransitiveTo make a sloshing sound.

   His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.

4. transitiveTo pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.

   He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.

   1 more example

   The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.

5. intransitiveto move noisily through water or other liquid.

   The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.

6. UKcolloquialtransitiveTo punch (someone).

   1 more example

   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 said, “I did not find it.” “You can't have looked properly.” Again I was compelled to pause and remind myself that an English gentleman does not slosh a sitting redhead, no matter what the provocation.

   1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII

plural sloshes

1. countableA quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.

   We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.

2. countableA sloshing sound or motion.
3. uncountableSlush.

   Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.

   2012, Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This, page 299

4. countableslanguncountableInferior 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.

   2005, Stuart Walton, Understanding, Choosing, and Enjoying Wine, page 86

5. 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.

   1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt

plural sloshes

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