splosh

verb
/splɑʃ/US/splɒʃ/UK

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Connected with splash and splish; compare also slosh.

Definitions

  1. To splash with a heavy splashing sound.

    • splosh into the sea
    • 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.
  2. To traverse mushy or marshy wetlands.

  3. To spill or spill over.

  4. + 3 more definitions
    1. A heavy splashing sound.

    2. A spilt or dropped liquid or semi-liquid substance.

      • A medium-sized paper filled with sensible articles to the point, is better than one full of splosh.
      • […] a milk-jug and a milk-bottle going all drunk then scattering white splosh in all directions
      • Leaning forward, Rose saw the generous white splosh of bird poo decorating the tip of the woman’s expensive looking brown suede shoe.
    3. Tea (the drink).

      • Give us a cup of splosh, love.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for splosh. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA