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aslosh

aslosh adjective: sloshing; full of, covered or soaked (with or in a liquid).

Adjective

aslosh (comparative more aslosh, superlative most aslosh)

  1. Sloshing; full of, covered or soaked (with or in a liquid).
    • Ladies aslosh in dirty streamwater bubbling into ditches to drain the beating rain.1972, John Brandi, Y Aun Hay Mas, Santa Barbara, CA: Christopher’s Books, page 66
    • He began to hack wetly, as though his lungs were aslosh with mud,1994, Lance Olsen, Tonguing the Zeitgeist, San Francisco: Permeable Press, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 73
  2. (figuratively) Having a large quantity of, abounding (with or in something).
    • I hope I’m not giving anyone the impression that Ben and I are not respecters of tradition, because the fact is that we’re simply aslosh with traditions.1969, Aloïse Buckley Heath, chapter 21, in Will Mrs. Major Go to Hell?, New York: National Review, published 1990, page 198
    • […] the whole country aslosh in cash from a buoyant stock market, demand for the really dirt-cheap travel in which we specialized had dropped.2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, London: Serpent’s Tail, page 286

Synonyms of aslosh

Forms of aslosh

comparativemore aslosh
superlativemost aslosh

Origin of aslosh

From a- + slosh.

Questions about aslosh

What does aslosh mean?
Aslosh means sloshing; full of, covered or soaked (with or in a liquid).
What part of speech is aslosh?
Aslosh is an adjective.

Words near aslosh in the dictionary

  1. ASLO
  2. Aslockton
  3. Aslong
  4. aslop
  5. aslope
  6. aslosh
  7. ASLR
  8. aslug
  9. Aslum
  10. aslumber
  11. asm

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