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Plopping vs Slopping - What's the difference?

plopping | slopping |

As verbs the difference between plopping and slopping

is that plopping is while slopping is .

As nouns the difference between plopping and slopping

is that plopping is the sound or action of something that plops while slopping is liquid that has been slopped.

plopping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound or action of something that plops.
  • * 2006 , John Gierach, Trout Bum (page 154)
    • There is, of course, no real silence in nature, only layer after layer of softer sounds: the rustlings, ploppings , and buzzings of God knows what, the sighing of the air and the water

    slopping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Liquid that has been slopped.
  • * 1860 , Horace Marryat, A residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen
    • were still extensive lakes, sloppings of the great deluge, not yet dried up in time to pass away from the evaporation of the sun's rays and the labour of mankind.
  • * (Arthur Conan Doyle)
    • It is only fair to say that they could have been removed by hand in the dark, but on examining the table, I was unable to see any of those sloppings of water which might be expected to follow such an operation.