Slosh

Pronunciation

(onomatopoeia); compare splash, splosh.

Full definition of slosh

Verb

1. (intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.
2. (British, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).
• 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, She greeted me with a bright smile, and said: “Back already? Did you find it?” With a strong effort I mastered my emotion and replied curtly but civilly that the answer was in the negative. “No,” I said, “I did not find it.” “You can't have looked properly.” Again I was compelled to pause and remind myself that an English gentleman does not slosh a sitting redhead, no matter what the provocation.

Noun

1. A quantity of a liquid; more than a splashAs the show progressed, a dollop of backfin crabmeat and a slice of mozzarella was added to the veal, fresh sliced white mushrooms to the beef, followed by a slosh of white wine in one pan and a slosh of brandy in the other.

Coordinate terms

• splash

By analogy with slash.

Noun

1. (computing) backslash, the character \.