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Skosh vs Slosh - What's the difference?

skosh | slosh |

As nouns the difference between skosh and slosh

is that skosh is a tiny amount; a little bit; tad; smidgen; jot while slosh is a quantity of a liquid; more than a splash or slosh can be (computing) backslash, the character.

As a verb slosh is

(of a liquid) to shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

skosh

English

Noun

(es)
  • A tiny amount; a little bit; tad; smidgen; jot.
    • He added just a skosh of vinegar, to give the recipe some zip.
  • * 2002 , Jan Hornung, Kiss the Sky: Helicopter Tales (ISBN 0595228968), page 62
    • “Fly just a skosh to your one o'clock,” Elroy said.
  • * 2003 , John Barnes, The Sky So Big and Black , (ISBN: 0765342227), page 216:
    • Just a skosh after the lunch break, Bivvy and Erin were singing a song together.
  • * 2005 , Bill Hylton, Bill Hylton's Power-Tool Joinery (ISBN 144031635X):
    • I set the bit a skosh under the width of the mortise's shoulder;
  • * 2009 , Kate Walbert, A Short History of Women: A Novel (ISBN 1416594981), page 192:
    • “More?” “Just a skosh',” Liz says. “A ' skosh ?” Fran says. “Japanese for 'a little,'” Liz says. “Sukoshi.”

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    Antonyms

    * scad

    slosh

    English

    (wikipedia slosh)

    Etymology 1

    (onomatopoeia); compare splash, splosh.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
    • The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.
  • (British, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VIII , passage=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

    (es)
  • A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash
    • As 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

    Etymology 2

    By analogy with (slash).

    Noun

    (es)
  • (computing) backslash, the character .