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Definition: Splosh |
SploshVerb1. Make a splashing sound; of liquids. 2. Walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow". 3. Cause (a liquid) to spatter about, esp. with force; "She splashed the water around her". 4. Dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SploshSynonyms: plash (v), slop (v), slosh (v), slush (v), spatter (v), splash (v), splatter (v), sprinkle (v), squelch (v), squish (v), swash (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Splosh |
| English words defined with "splosh": slop, slosh, splash, squelch, squish. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Splosh" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Splosh" is used about 8 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) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
splosh | 57 |
splosh magazine | 4 |
messy splosh | 3 |
photo splosh | 3 |
pie splosh | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "splosh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | para (ahead, before, beforehand, cash, chuck, contribution, currency, dough, Duff, forward, in face of, in front of, kale, loot, mammon, money, necessary, oil, oof, pelf, roll, shekels, shell, shiners, siller, stiff, the almighty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | шляпване (smack), пръскане (splash, spray, spraying), пари (cash, chink, currency, dough, dross, dust, funds, kale, loot, money, needful, pelf, pile, pocket, purse, ready, rhino, scratch, shiners, smart, stuff, tin, vapor, vapour, wad, wampum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | platsch (plop, splash), klatsch (chin-wag, gossip, scandal, smack, splash), klacks (blob, cinch, dollop, glob, piece of cake), klack (click). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | maszat (black, mess-up, smear, smut, splodge, splotch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | getto d'acqua (water injection), denari (monies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oshsplay dinheiro (bawbee, brass, cash, chink, currency, dibs, dough, ducat, gold, in cash, money, pelf, pence, penny, pewter, pocket, purse, shekel, shekels, shiner, siller, tin, wad, wherewithal), bagalhoça. (various references) пролитая вода. (various references) pljus. (various references) voltereta al agua, pasta (batter, bread, cake, cash, cookie, dough, impasto, loot, makings, mash, pasta, paste, pastry, pulp, shekels, shiners, spread). (various references) стрибок у воду. (various references) xìn (cabbage, sugar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "splosh": sploshed, sploshes, sploshing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-l-o-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: shops, slops, slosh, sophs. | |
-2 letters: holp, hols, hops, lops, loss, pols, posh, shop, slop, sols, soph, sops. | |
-3 letters: hop, lop, ohs, ops, poh, pol, sol, sop, sos. | |
-4 letters: ho, lo, oh, op, os, sh, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-l-o-p-s-s" | |
+2 letters: alphosis, haploses, haplosis, hoopless, hopeless, polishes, shallops, slipshod, sploshed, sploshes. | |
+3 letters: asphodels, basophils, fishpoles, fleshpots, heelposts, helistops, hospitals, isopleths, longships, lordships, mesophyls, pestholes, polishers, postholes, shiploads, shopgirls, shoplifts, shoptalks, sploshing, splotches, sulphones. | |
+4 letters: alphosises, basophiles, consulship, depolishes, flophouses, hopelessly, horseplays, hypoblasts, hypostyles, mesophylls, omphaloses, photolyses, photolysis, playhouses, plowshares, preschools, repolishes, sheepfolds, showplaces, splashdown, spotlights, stoplights, sulphurous, telophases, upholsters. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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