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slosh

[slosh]
–verb (used without object)
1. to splash or move through water, mud, or slush.
2. (of a liquid) to move about actively within a container.
–verb (used with object)
3. to stir or splash (something) around in a fluid: to slosh the mop in the pail.
4. to splash (liquid) clumsily or haphazardly: She sloshed tea all over her new suit. They sloshed the paint over the wall.
–noun
5. watery mire or partly melted snow; slush.
6. the lap or splash of liquid: the slosh of waves against the shore.
7. a small quantity of liquid: a slosh of milk in the pail.
8. a watery or weak drink.

Origin:
1805–15; perh. b. slop 1 and slush
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slosh   (slŏsh)   
v.   sloshed, slosh·ing, slosh·es

v.   tr.
  1. To spill or splash (a liquid) copiously or clumsily: slosh paint on the floor.

  2. To agitate in a liquid: slosh clothes in a solution of bleach and detergent.

v.   intr.
To splash, wade, or flounder in water or another liquid: sloshed through the creek.
n.  
  1. Slush.

  2. The sound of splashing liquid.


[Perhaps blend of slop1 and slush.]
slosh'y adj.
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