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Definition: Slushy |
SlushyAdjective1. Being or resembling melting snow; "slushy snow". 2. Effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slushy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Synonyms: SlushySynonyms: bathetic (adj), maudlin (adj), mawkish (adj), mushy (adj), schmaltzy (adj), schmalzy (adj), sentimental (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Slushy |
| English words defined with "slushy": Slashy, Sloshy, Sludy, Slutchy. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "slushy": Slutchy. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Imagine him on a slushy, snowy night-- tearing out those packages. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Slushy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Slushy" is used about 18 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 94.44% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "slushy": become slushy ♦ slushy sense. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
slushy | 18 |
machine slushy | 13 |
recipe slushy | 5 |
drink slushy | 4 |
maker slushy | 2 |
machine sale slushy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "slushy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sentimental (gooey, maudlin, novelettish, sentimental, spoony), me llucë (slimy), me baltë (miry, mucky, muddy). (various references) | |
Arabic | موحل (clayey, foul, mucky, muddy, murky, puddly, slimy, sloughy, squashy), حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ذائب (molten, run). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кален (feculent, miry, muddy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, splashy, sticky, tempered, thick), кишав (sleety), лигав (gooey, namby-pamby, pituitary, slimy, slobbery). (various references) | |
Czech | rozbředlý (watery), kýèovitý (meretricious, trashy). (various references) | |
Finnish | räntäinen. (various references) | |
French | pâteux (slobbery, sloppily, sludgy), fondu, détrempé (sloppy), bourbeux (sloughy), banal, élimé. (various references) | |
German | matschig (gooey, mucky, muddy, mushy, pulpy, slobbery, sloppily, sludgy, soggy, squashy, squishy). (various references) | |
Greek | λασπώδησ (loamy, miry, muddy, plashy, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, splashy), λασπωμένοσ (muddy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרופש (fouled, miry, muddy, splashy, turbid), עכור (bemired, foul, gloomy, muddy, turbid), רפש (befouled, miry, muddy, turbid). (various references) | |
Hungarian | latyakos (slobby, sloppy, splashy), kásás (mushy, pulpy), tocsakos, szakácssegéd, sáros (dirty, mired, miry, muddy, oozy, sloppy, sludgy, splashy, to be hot), kukta (pressure cooker), havas latyaktól felázott, hajószakács (cook), hólétől latyakos, giccses (arty, conventional, corny, kitschy, mushy), érzelgős (corny, gooey, gushy, lyrical, maudlin, mushy, namby-pamby, sentimental, sickly, sloppy, to slobber over sy, twee), émelyítően érzelgős. (various references) | |
Korean | 진창 (sludge, slush). (various references) | |
Manx | laaghagh (ducklike, muddy, sludgy), fo niaghtey bog. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ushyslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | piegas (namby-pamby, slobbery), lamecha, lamacento (miry, muddy, mushy, oozy, poachy, puddly, quaggy, sloppy, sludgy, squashy). (various references) | |
Russian | слякотный (muddy, sleety, sloppy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bljuzgav. (various references) | |
Spanish | sentimentaloide (schmaltzy), lleno de lodo, enfangado, casi líquido, a medio derretir. (various references) | |
Swedish | sentimental (gooey, maudlin, namby-pamby, novelettish, sentimental, sloppy), moddig. (various references) | |
Turkish | sulu (aqueous, enhydrous, hydrated, hydrous, juicy, lush, moist, Pappy, ripe, runny, sassy, saucily, saucy, sloppy, smarmy, soft, soupy, succulent, washy, watery, weak, wet), vıcık vıcık (quaggy, ropy, slobbery, sludgy, soggy), abartılı ve saçma, aşırı duygusal (gooey, histrionic, impressible, impressionable, mushy, over-sensitive, schmaltzy, slobbery, soppy, supersensitive, syrupy, treacly), çamurlu (miry, muddy, plashy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, splashy, turbid, uliginose). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сльотавий, рідкий (diffluent, fluid, liquid, rare, runny, sparse, thin, weak, wet). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lấm bùn, bùn lầy đầy tuyết tan. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Slushy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blushy, lushy, Sallochy, slithy, stushie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-l-s-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: hussy, shuls, slush. | |
-2 letters: lush, shul. | |
-3 letters: shy, sly. | |
-4 letters: sh, uh, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-l-s-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: slushily. | |
+3 letters: squashily, unstylish. | |
+4 letters: playhouses, ruthlessly, sluggishly, sluttishly, squarishly. | |
+5 letters: humorlessly, squeamishly, sulfhydryls, unselfishly. | |
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