Slashes vs Sloshes - What's the difference?

slashes | sloshes |


As verbs the difference between slashes and sloshes

is that slashes is (slash) while sloshes is (slosh).

As a noun slashes

is .

slashes

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (slash)

    • Anagrams

    *

    sloshes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (slosh)

    • 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 .