Slosh vs Plash - What's the difference?
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(of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
(British, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).
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A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash
(computing) backslash, the character .
(UK, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
* Isaac Barrow
A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
* Henry James, The Aspern Papers
To splash.
* Keats
* Longfellow
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To cause a splash.
To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
* to plash a hedge
As verbs the difference between slosh and plash
is that slosh is to shift chaotically; to splash noisily while plash is to splash.As nouns the difference between slosh and plash
is that slosh is a quantity of a liquid; more than a splash while plash is a small pool of standing water; a puddle.slosh
English
(wikipedia slosh)Etymology 1
(onomatopoeia); compare splash, splosh.Verb
(es)- The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.
Noun
(es)- 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
* splashEtymology 2
By analogy with (slash).Noun
(es)plash
English
Etymology 1
.Noun
(plashes)- Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh .
- (Francis Bacon)
- These shallow plashes .
- Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash , and as we listened we watched it in silence.
Verb
- plashing among bedded pebbles
- Far below him plashed the waters.
- to plash a wall in imitation of granite
Etymology 2
(etyl) plaissier, . Compare pleach.Noun
(plashes)Verb
- (Evelyn)
