Meanings
present singular third person sploshes · participle present sploshing · participle past sploshed · past sploshed
- To splash with a heavy splashing sound.
splosh into the sea
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Sometimes someone would take a wrench to a fire hydrant, jam a crate up to its nozzle, turning the whole of it into a fountain for us kids to splosh around and play in.
2009, John Ridley, A Conversation with the Mann - To spill or spill over.
plural sploshes
- countableA heavy splashing sound.
- countableuncountableA spilt or dropped liquid or semi-liquid substance.
[…] a milk-jug and a milk-bottle going all drunk then scattering white splosh in all directions
1962, Anthony Burgess, edited by Mark Rawlison, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2011, →ISBN, page 432 more examples
A medium-sized paper filled with sensible articles to the point, is better than one full of splosh.
1871 September 16, “Field Intelligence”, in OHIO FARMER, volume XX, number 37, Cleveland, page 581Leaning forward, Rose saw the generous white splosh of bird poo decorating the tip of the woman’s expensive looking brown suede shoe.
2008, Jill Mansell, The One You Really Want, Hachette U.K., →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
verbcause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Onomatopoeic. Connected with splash and splish; compare also slosh.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish molskahtaa
- molskahtaato make a heavy splashing sound
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with splosh
Cite this entry
splosh. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/splosh
“splosh.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/splosh. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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