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Slashy vs Sloshy - What's the difference?

slashy | sloshy |

As adjectives the difference between slashy and sloshy

is that slashy is involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork while sloshy is that sloshes or splashes.

slashy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2008 , date=March 25 , author=Zach Welhouse , title=Starring Sephiroth and Some Other Chumps , work=RPGamer citation , page= , passage=Fans of all things feathered and slashy have the rest of the month to obtain a PSP, if they don't yet have one. }}
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  • , year=2004 , date=March 25 , author= , title=Pick up those blades and fight , work=Toronto Star citation , page= , passage=Blade Warriors the game reviewed today is the first Onimusha game to come with a play style of its own It is a slashy fighting game with clanging swords}}
  • resembling a slash (the punctuation mark)
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2009 , date=June 22 , author=Ted Dziuba , title=Opera Software reinvents complete irrelevance , work=The Register citation , page= , passage=It was written by a fellow named Hans S. Tommerholt, and I apologize to you all, but there's actually a slashy thing through the first "o" in his last name,}}
  • wet, having wet ground, slushy
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  • , year=1962 , date=January 21 , author= , title=Italy's No. 2 Team Leads In Two-Man Bobsled Meet , work=Baltimore Sun citation , page= , passage=Italy's Rinaldo Ruetti mastered a slashy , water-logged bobsled run today and took a substantial lead in the world two-man championships}}
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  • , year=1940 , date=June 27 , author= , title=East Bengal Beat Sporting Union Calcutta League Football , work=Indian Express citation , page= , passage=The grounds were slashy , there being a heavy shower in the afternoon. Play with barefoot was difficult. }}
  • making a movement akin to swiping a sword.
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  • , year=2002 , date=June 21 , author=Owen Gleiberman , title=The Bourne Identity , work=Entertainment Weekly citation , page= , passage=Matt Damon, playing an assassin without a cause, gets to show off some very deftly timed martial-arts moves, flipping his limbs around with the slashy percussive precision of ninja nunchakus.}}
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  • , year=2002 , date=March 24 , author=Gary Lambrecht , title= , work=Baltimore Sun citation , page= , passage="He is a very slashy player. Every time a shot goes up, I have to find him and know where he is at all times because he is a great offensive rebounder..."}}
  • darting, running in a zigzag motion
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2007 , date=January 1 , author=Teddy Greenstein , title=2-for-1 promotion ; Michigan-USC winner figures to be preseason No. 1 team in 2007 , work=Chicago Tribune citation , page= , passage="Steve Smith is more of a slashy guy, very quick. He runs really good routes. Jarrett is a prototypical big receiver. He gets up there with the best of them..."}}
  • of a work of art, done in the style that suggests the painter was slashing the canvas with a paintbrush
  • * 2007 , Julie Halpern, Get Well Soon page 88
  • In the last hour we've managed to do ten [drawings] total (I did six in a more abstract, slashy style, and she did four, neatly and precisely). I've never really done any kind of art outside of school, except for writing.
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  • , year=1988 , date=May 1 , author=Bill van Siclen , title=Bailey's 'realism' is really something else His 'tablescapes' are deceptively simple , work=Providence Journal citation , page= , passage=most contemporary art Bailey gives us images of classical order and balance In place of slashy brushwork and sludgy paint he gives us solid figures and uminous color.}}
  • slushy, uber-romantic
  • sloshy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • That sloshes or splashes
  • Derived terms

    * sloshily