splosh

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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.

Translations

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.
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