Slosh

Definition: Slosh

Slosh

Verb

1. Make a splashing sound; of liquids.

2. Walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow".

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

Date "slosh" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references)

Synonyms: Slosh

Synonyms: slop (v), slosh around (v), slush (v), slush around (v), splash (v), splosh (v), squelch (v), squish (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Uncleanness	Mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Dynamic Slosh Induced Loads on Liquid Cargo Tank Bulkheads/R-19 (reference) Pay Attention, Slosh (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Water; car wash; garden hose; bathe; bespatter; broadcast; dabble; dash; douse; drench; drown; get wet; moisten; paddle; plash; plunge; shower; slop; slosh; soak; sop; spatter; splatter; spray; spread; sprinkle; squirt; squirt; strew; throw; wade; wallow.		Water cooler; babble; bubble; crow; lap; murmur; plash; purl; ripple; slosh; splash; wash; gurgle; gurgling.
	Water; splash; wring; slosh; wash; clean.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Slosh" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 69.23% of the time. "Slosh" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	69.23%	9	117,287
Lexical Verb (base form)	30.77%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

Expressions using "slosh": slosh about ♦ slosh around ♦ slosh down ♦ slosh on. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "slosh": slosh-slosh, slosh-slosh-slosh.
	Ending with "slosh": slosh-slosh, slosh-slosh-slosh.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "slosh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		spërkat (asperse, bedew, besprinkle, damp, dampen, dash, dew, perfuse, plash, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, strew), borë e shkrirë (sleet, sludge, slush, snow-broth). (various references)

Arabic		‏قبق, ‏سكب (casting, decant, empty, infuse, infusion, melt down, mould, pour, pouring out, render, shed, slop), ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏خاض في الماء (splash), ‏خاض (ford, splash), ‏دفق الماء. (various references)

Bulgarian		слаба напитка, сладникава сантименталност (schmaltz), силен удар (biff, clip, lick, plunk, slog, smacker, smasher, sock, stinger, swipe, thump, wallop, welt, welter, whammy, whang, whop), рядка кал (slurry, slush), разредена напитка, цапардосвам (plump, poke, slam, sock), шляпам (flop about, paddle, slop about, splash, squelch, squish), киша (sleet, sludge, slush), намокрям (damp, drench, moisten, wet), напръсквам (besprinkle, splash, sprinkle, syringe), малко количество течност, плискане (lap, plash, spatter, swash, wash), плискам (plash, slush, spatter, splash, throw), изплисквам (slop, slop out, slop over). (various references)

Chinese		搅动 (Churn, Churned, churned-up, Churning, sloshed, stir, stirred, stirring). (various references)

Czech		vrazit komu jednu, praštit (bash, belt, bust, catch, fling, hit, hurl, knock, slug, strike, swipe), cákat. (various references)

Farsi		مشروب لزج , لجن (Lair, Mire, Mud, Silt, Slob, Slobber, Slop, Slough, Sludge, Slush), گل (Blossom, Clay, Flower, Lair, Mud, Silt, Slob), ول گشتن (Hangaround, Putter, Traipse), غذای چسبناک , خودرابالجن وگل ولای الودن , دراب چلپ وچلوپ کردن . (various references)

French		renverser (slop), répandre (slop), patouiller, patauger (slop about), flanquer (slap, sling one's hook), clapoter (slop about), barbouiller. (various references)

German		schwappen (slop, splash, swash), schwapp (slap, smack, splash), schmieren (anoint, butter, daub, give bribes, goos, grease, grease smb.'s palm, lubricate, lubrication, oil, rub in, scrawl, smear, spread, Square, tallow, to daub, to smear), planschen (paddle, splash, swash), klatschen (applaud, blab, clap, go smack, gossip, lap, pitter patter, plash, ripple, slap, smack, smash, sneak, splash, swat, talk, tattle, tell tales, thwack, to applaud, to chin-wag, to clap), herumschwappen, herumplanschen (splash about), dreschen (bandy, bash, flail, slam, slog, thrash, thrashing, thrashings, thresh, threshing, wallop). (various references)

Greek		χτυπώ (beat, beat up, beaten, chime, clank, clap, clink, clip, clobber, hit, hurt, jangle, knock, punish, smite, spank, strike, strike down, swat, thrash, thump), λάσπη (alluvium, cement, clay, mire, mortar, mud, ooze, puddle, silt, slab, slime, sludge), λασπόνερο (slush). (various references)

Hebrew		לשכשך (dabble, paddle, splash, swash), ל�"תיז (ricochet, spatter, splatter, spray, sputter). (various references)

Hungarian		sör (ale, beer, hops, john barleycorn, malt liquor), frász (jitters), flemm (wham), füles (wham). (various references)

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

Italian		poltiglia (mash, mud, mush, slobber, slush), fango (dirt, mire, mud, slime, sludge, slush). (various references)

Korean		출� �거리십시�". (various references)

Pig Latin		oshslay

Portuguese		patinhar (drabble, lap, plash, splash, wade), esparrinhar (plash, splash, swash). (various references)

Russian		разбавленный напиток, хлюпать (squish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		poprskati (bespatter, besprinkle, intersperse, sparge, splash, spray, sprinkle), lapavica (slush, snow-broth), bućkuriš (slop, wish-wash), bljuzgavica (slush, snow-broth), šljapkati (plash, slog, squatter), šljapati. (various references)

Spanish		pegar (affix, attach, beat, beat up on, belt, catch, cement, fasten, give, glue, hang, have, hit, knock about, Lam, live through, paste, paste up, plug, post, pump, put up, roam, sew, sew on, slap, slug, smack, sock, stick, stick down, stick on, stick together, strike, swipe, tag on, take, thrash, tie on, touch, trounce, welt). (various references)

Swedish		snyting (clip), skvalp (splash), plaska (dabble, flop, lap, paddle, plash, slop), klippa till (clip, cut out). (various references)

Thai		ใช้บางอย่างกวนของเหลว, เบียร์ (beer, drafty), โคลน (mud, slop, sludge, slush), ทำหก (slop), การกระเ�"็น. (various references)

Turkish		sulu çamur (ooze, sludge, slush), suda yürümek (slop, slush, squelch, Wade), sıçratmak (dabble, dash, jump, slop, slosh on, slush, spatter, splash, splatter, splutter, squirt), pestilini çıkarmak (beat smb. into a jelly, beat to a pulp, pound smb. to a jelly, squelch), içmek (belt down, drink, drinking, eat, have a drink, imbibe, indulge, knock back, propose, pull, slosh down, swig), haşat etmek (bang up, bash in, bash up, pile up, prang, pulverize, quash, wreck), eriyen kar (slush), çamurlu su (puddle), çamurlu kar, çamurda yürümek (puddle about, squelch), çamur (aspersion, calumniation, clay, daub, dirt, gook, mire, muck, mud, slime, slob, slush, soggy, squelch), çalkalanmak (agitate, slush, swash), çalkalamak (agitate, churn, rinse, rinse out, rouse, shake, shake up, swash, swill, swill out, whip up). (various references)

Ukrainian		хлюпати (slop, squish), блукати без мети (wander about, wander around). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "slosh": sloshed, sloshes, sloshier, sloshiest, sloshing, sloshy. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Slosh" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Glosha, losh, salish, Sclosa, scoosh, scosh, shosh, skosh, sleh, Sloch, slogh, slorh, sloz, sls, solih, sposh. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "slosh" (pronounced slÄ"sh)
3	-l Ä" sh	galosh.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-l-o-s-s"
	-1 letter: hols, loss, sols.
	-2 letters: ohs, sol, sos.
	-3 letters: ho, lo, oh, os, sh, so.
	Words containing the letters "h-l-o-s-s"
	+1 letter: hosels, sheols, shoals, shools, shorls, sloshy, sloths, splosh.
	+2 letters: asshole, holisms, holists, hostels, housels, isohels, schools, schorls, shaloms, shlocks, sholoms, shovels, sloshed, sloshes, sloughs, slowish.
	+3 letters: alphosis, assholes, bolshies, echoless, galoshes, gasohols, goloshes, haploses, haplosis, holeless, holiness, holsters, homeless, hoodless, hoofless, hookless, hoopless, hopeless, hornless, hostiles, hostlers, polishes, salchows, schlocks, scholars, shallops, shallots, shallows, shoalest, shoeless, shouldst, shylocks, slipshod, slobbish, sloshier, sloshing, slouches, sploshed, sploshes, thowless, wholisms.
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