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splosh

UK/splɒʃ/US/splɑʃ/

splosh verb: to splash with a heavy splashing sound.

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
    • 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.2009, John Ridley, A Conversation with the Mann
  2. To traverse mushy or marshy wetlands.
  3. To spill or spill over.

Noun

splosh (countable and uncountable, plural sploshes)

  1. (countable) A heavy splashing sound.
  2. A spilt or dropped liquid or semi-liquid substance.
    • A medium-sized paper filled with sensible articles to the point, is better than one full of splosh.1871 September 16, “Field Intelligence”, in OHIO FARMER, volume XX, number 37, Cleveland, page 581
    • […] a milk-jug and a milk-bottle going all drunk then scattering white splosh in all directions1962, Anthony Burgess, edited by Mark Rawlison, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2011, →ISBN, page 43
  3. (UK, slang, uncountable) Tea (the drink).
    • Give us a cup of splosh, love.

Forms of splosh

Verb
third-person singular presentsploshes
present participlesploshing
past participlesploshed
pastsploshed
Noun
pluralsploshes

Origin of splosh

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

Words formed from splosh

Words that rhyme with splosh

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Questions about splosh

What does splosh mean?
Splosh means to splash with a heavy splashing sound.
What part of speech is splosh?
Splosh can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce splosh?
Splosh is pronounced /splɑʃ/ (US).
What is the past tense of splosh?
The past tense of splosh is sploshed.

Words near splosh in the dictionary

  1. splork
  2. splorked
  3. splorking
  4. splorks
  5. splorp
  6. splosh
  7. sploshed
  8. sploshes
  9. sploshier
  10. sploshiest
  11. sploshing

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