Slush

Definition: Slush

Slush

Noun

1. Partially melted snow.

Verb

1. Make a splashing sound; of liquids.

2. Spill or splash copiously or clumsily; "slosh paint all over the walls".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slush" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Chemistry

Geography

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Slush

Marsh

Noun: marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall, cienaga, jhil, vlei.

Semiliquidity

Emulsion, soup; squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze; moisture; marsh .

Uncleanness

Mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh.

Crosswords: Slush

Portuguese (slush).

I've had more fun watching slush melt (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Debris flows and slush avalanches in northern Swedish Lappland : distribution and geomorphological significance (reference)

• Out of the Slush Pile and into Print (reference)

• Slush Pile (reference)

• Slush, Slush! (reference)

• The Exchange Stabilization Fund: Slush Money or War Chest? (Policy Analyses in International Economics, 57) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Let's Have Fun at the Slush Puppie Fa (reference)

• Let's Have Fun! At the Slush Puppie Factory (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Slush (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Oil field worker, probing in slush pit, Kilgore, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Slush pit of oil well, Kilgore, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Snow and slush in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. Credit: Library of Congress.

Oil draining from tanks into slush pit. Slick, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Travel

Russia

In winter one must be prepared for either slush or icy sidewalks. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "slush": ice slush ♦ slush about ♦ slush around ♦ slush bucket ♦ slush fund ♦ snow slush ♦ wet slush. Additional references.

Beginning with "slush": slush-covered, slush-filled, slush-fund, slush-like, slush-slurp.

Albanian

sqotë (mire, slobber, slop, snowbroth), sentimentalizma, mbuloj me baltë, llucë (beastliness, mire, mud, muddiness, slime, slob, slop, sludge), borë e shkrirë (sleet, slosh, sludge, snow-broth), çimentoj (cement). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ماء طيني, ‏هراء (balderdash, baloney, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, fudge, hocus pocus, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, piffling, ramble, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, tosh, trash, trumpery, wind), ‏نفاية (chaff, dump, garbage, junk, outcast, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scouring, short, soil, swill, trash, waste), ‏طين (clay, daub, earth, loam, lute, luting, mire, muck, mud, ooze, point, silt, slime, sludge), ‏ثلج في مرحلة الذوبان, ‏شحم للماكينات. (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery), изкалвам, изцапвам (bedraggle, dirty, draggle, foul, mess), плискам (plash, slosh, spatter, splash, throw), лапавица (sleet, sludge), обливам (deluge, lave, perfuse, pour over, sluice), изпълвам с хоросан, отпадъци от сланина, смазка против ръждясване, киша (sleet, slosh, sludge), цапам в лапавица, цапам в кал, рядка кал (slosh, slurry), сантиментална измислица, смазвам (bow down, grease, jam, lubricate, mop up, oil, overbear, overwhelm, prostrate, pulverize, smash, smear, squelch, steamroller, tread down, tread under, unstring, weigh down, whelm), отпадъци от мас. (various references)

Chinese 

融雪, 淖 (mud). (various references)

Czech

rozbředlý sníh, limonáda (lemonade, slop), břeèka (dishwater, mush). (various references)

Danish

snesjap (snow slush, watery mud), sjapis (sludge), sjap, dynd (dirt, mud, slime). (various references)

Dutch

sneeuwslik (snow slush, watery mud), sneeuwbrij, smeltende sneeuw, slush (sludge), slik (dirt, mud), ijspap, brij-ijs (puddle). (various references)

Farsi 

لجن (Lair, Mire, Mud, Silt, Slob, Slobber, Slop, Slosh, Slough, Sludge), گل نرم , گل وشل (Mire), تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Hasty, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Paregoric, Peppery, Presto, Pungent, Quick, Racy, Rapid, Rash, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Virulent, Wrench, Yare), دوغاب (Whitewash), باچلپ وچلوپ شستن , بادوغاب پرکردن , برفاب , برف ابکی . (various references)

Finnish

lumisohjo (sludge, snow slush, watery mud). (various references)

French

neige fondante, gadoue (slurry). (various references)

German

Schneematsch (snow slush, watery mud), matsch (bad, capot, mud, mush, rotten, slobber, sludge). (various references)

Greek 

Slush, μισολιωμένο χιόνι, πάγος μερικώς τετηγμένος (snow slush, watery mud), χιών μερικώς τετηγμένος (snow slush, watery mud), χιονόνερο (sleet), χιονόμαζα, επιπλέοντα παγοθρύμματα (sludge), λάσπη χιόνοσ, λασπόνερο (slosh), λασπόχιονο, λίποσ (fat, grease, suet, tallow). (various references)

Hebrew 

מי רפש, שלו�'ית, של�' מימי (sleet). (various references)

Hungarian

latyak (slob, slobber), hólé (snow-broth). (various references)

Indonesian

lumpur (mire, mud, ooze, slime, slosh, sludge). (various references)

Italian

poltiglia di neve (snow slush, watery mud), poltiglia (mash, mud, mush, slobber, slosh), opera sdolcinata, neve fondente, neve bagnata (wet snow), ghiaccio galleggiante frammisto a neve (sludge), fango (dirt, mire, mud, slime, slosh, sludge), fanghiglia (sludge). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

泥濘 (mire, mud, quagmire, sludge). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぬかるみ (mire, mud, quagmire, sludge), でいねい (mire, mud, quagmire, sludge). (various references)

Korean 

진창 (sludge, slushy). (various references)

Manx

sniaghtey bog, greallagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ushslay.(various references)

Portuguese

slush, neve derretida, neve com lama (snow slush, watery mud), massa lubrificante (grape, grease), lodo (clay, dirt, mud, ooze, slob), lama aquosa, imundície (carrion, dirt, dirtiness, feculence, filth, foulness, muck, ordure, sludge, soil, squalor), baboseira (piffle, slipslop). (various references)

Romanian

spãla (bathe, clean, fade, flush, irrigate, launder, lave, mop, mop up, pan, stream, sweep, wash, wash up), sentimentalism ieftin (slobber), zãpadã fleşcãitã, unsoare (fat, grease, lubricant, salve, tallow), tencui (ceil, daub, Grout, parget, render, whitewash), noroi (clay, filth, mire, muck, mud, ooze, sediment, slime), mocirlã (bog, Marsh, morass, sink, slime), împroşca cu noroi (mire). (various references)

Russian 

слякоть (mud, slob). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamazati (besmear, besmirch, gild the pill, smear, smudge, soil), ribati (rub, scour, scrub), mljackati (champ, munch, squish), lapavica (slosh, snow-broth), gacati (stodge, trudge, wade), bljuzgavica (slosh, snow-broth). (various references)

Spanish

sentimentalismo (gush, mush, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, sob stuff), pasta de hielo (sludge), nieve húmeda (wet snow), nieve fangosa, nieve a medio derretir, hielo viscoso, hielo semifundido (snow slush, watery mud), hielo pastoso (snow slush, watery mud), grumo de hielo (sludge), fango (mire, mud), aguanieve fangosa (sludge), "slush". (various references)

Swedish

snösörja (sludge, snow slush, watery mud), slask (slop, splashing), dy (dirt, mire, mud, ooze, slime, sludge). (various references)

Thai

โปะ�"้วยซีเมนต์, โคลน (mud, slop, slosh, sludge), สารหล่อลื่น, หยอ�"น้ำมันหล่อลื่น (lubricate). (various references)

Turkish

sulu kar (sleet, soft hail), sulu çamur (ooze, slosh, sludge), suda yürümek (slop, slosh, squelch, Wade), sıçratmak (dabble, dash, jump, slop, slosh, slosh on, spatter, splash, splatter, splutter, squirt), yağlamak (anoint, baste, grease, incense, lubricate, oil), yağ (adipose, fat, grease, oil, tallow), makine yağı (grease, lube oil, lubricating oil), kâğıt hamuru (paper pulp, paper stock, papier mache, pulp, stuff, wood pulp), eriyen kar (slosh), değersiz şey (cheeseparing, damn, falderal, gold brick, junk, lemon, rag, shoddy, small beer, stiver, trifle, trumpery), bulaştırmak (bedabble, bedaub, besmear, blur, communicate, contaminate, corrupt, daub, dirty, drag, embroil, entangle, imbrue, implicate, infect, involve, inweave, propagate, smear, smudge, splodge, splotch, spread, taint, transmit, twine), aşırı duygusallık (mush, schmaltz, sentimentality, sob stuff), çamurda ilerlemek, çamur (aspersion, calumniation, clay, daub, dirt, gook, mire, muck, mud, slime, slob, slosh, soggy, squelch), çalkalanmak (agitate, slosh, swash). (various references)

Turkmen 

lьяk (mud), laя (clay, loam). (various references)

Ukrainian

сльота (sleet, slop), талий сніг, шуга, відходи жиру. (various references)

Vietnamese 

quỹ bán mỡ thừa (slush fund). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "slush": slushed, slushes, slushier, slushiest, slushily, slushiness, slushinesses, slushing, slushy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slush" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alush, salish, sleh, Slisz, Sloch, sls, slugh, Slupsk, slust, sluth, sluze, sqush, stush, sulch, sulh, sulph, sush, swush. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: shuls.

-1 letter: lush, shul.

-3 letters: sh, uh, us.

+1 letter: lushes, shauls, slushy.

+2 letters: blushes, bushels, flushes, housels, hueless, hustles, lushest, plushes, shlumps, sleuths, sloughs, slushed, slushes, sulphas.

+3 letters: blushers, bushless, dishfuls, flushers, flushest, humpless, hurtless, hustlers, lushness, plushest, ruthless, saltbush, schlumps, shouldst, shuffles, shuttles, slouches, sluggish, slushier, slushily, slushing, subshell, sulphids, sulphurs, unlashes, unshells.

+4 letters: alehouses, almshouse, bullshots, bulrushes, bushelers, bushlands, chasubles, chestfuls, flashguns, flushness, goulashes, halituses, hourglass, housefuls, houseless, humorless, nutshells, phalluses, plushiest, plushness, publishes, punchless, pushballs, schedules, scholiums, shelducks, shelffuls, shoulders, shouldest, shufflers, slouchers, slungshot, slushiest, spherules, squashily, squelches, subshells, sulphates, sulphides, sulphites, sulphones, sunlights, thalluses, unleashes, unselfish, unstylish, urushiols.