splosh

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /splɑʃ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /splɒʃ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

Verb

splosh (third-person singular simple present sploshes, present participle sploshing, simple past and past participle sploshed)

1. To splash with a heavy splashing sound.

   splosh into the sea

   • 2009, John Ridley, A Conversation with the Mann:

     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.

Related terms

• slosh
• splash
• splish
• sploosh

Translations

to make a heavy splashing sound

• Finnish: molskahtaa

Noun

splosh (countable and uncountable, plural sploshes)

1. (countable) A heavy splashing sound.
2. (countable, uncountable) A spilt or dropped liquid or semi-liquid substance.
   • 2008, Jill Mansell, The One You Really Want, Hachette U.K., →ISBN:

     Leaning forward, Rose saw the generous white splosh of bird poo decorating the tip of the woman’s expensive looking brown suede shoe.

   • 2011 [1962], Anthony Burgess, edited by Mark Rawlison, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page 43:

     […] a milk-jug and a milk-bottle going all drunk then scattering white splosh in all directions

3. (uncountable, UK, slang) Tea (the drink).

   Give us a cup of splosh, love.