Slush vs Flush - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between slush and flush

is that slush is half-melted snow or ice while flush is a group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.

As verbs the difference between slush and flush

is that slush is to smear with slushy liquid or grease while flush is to cause to take flight from concealment.

As an adjective flush is

smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.

slush

English

(wikipedia slush)

Noun

(slushes)

Half-melted snow or ice.

As the skiing season drew to an end, there was nothing but slush left on the piste.

Liquid mud or mire.

Flavored shaved ice served as a drink.

A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.

The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.

(engineering) A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.

Synonyms

* (snow) slush ice * (flavored shaved ice served as a drink) slushy, slushie, slurpee, Slurpee, slush puppy, Slush Puppie

Derived terms

* slushy * slush fund * slush puppy (non-alcoholic) * Slush Puppy (alcoholic drink) * slushbreaker

Verb

(es)

To smear with slushy liquid or grease.

* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=July 9, author=Donald G. Mcneil, title=Restless Pioneers, Seeding Brooklyn, work=New York Times citation

, passage=The ungrateful “they” are Brooklynites who’ve come to see Harding-Mamary creations as a chain, where you can get it venti in a ramekin with crème fraîche or slushed with guava and salt on the rim. }}

To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.

* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Jack London, title=The Cruise of the Dazzler, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The water was soon slushing merrily over the deck, while the smoke pouring from the cabin stove carried a promise of good things to come. }}

* {{quote-news, year=1994, date=March 4, author=Dave Wiethop, Sandi Abadinski, title=Reader to Reader, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=Sitting inside the Starbucks on Broadway near Roscoe, two art students had tired of sketching people slushing through the two-day-old snow. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1919, author=F. Scott Fitzgerald, title=This Side of Paradise, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=A belated freshman, his oilskin slicker rasping loudly, slushed along the soft path. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1918, author=Randall Parrish, title=Wolves of the Sea, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The deck below me was littered with chests, sea boots, and odds and ends of clothing, while farther aft considerable water had found entrance through the scuttle hole, and was slushing back and forth as the bark rolled. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Nicholas Carter, title=A Woman at Bay, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=They climbed over fallen and moss-grown logs; they slushed through shallow water; they crawled on their hands and knees under embankments and rocks, and at last, at Handsome's order, they stepped into a boat of some kind which the latter pushed away from the bank with a pole. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1888, author=Wilfrid Chateauclair, title=The Young Seigneur, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=But as the boat stuck in the bottom and refused to stir, he suddenly dropped his hold, and with an "Avance done!" gallantly slushed his way into the water alongside, in his Sunday trousers, lifted the gunwale and started her afloat, amidst a shower of final "Au revoirs," and the rose chaloupe moved with noiseless smoothness down the current. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1867, author=Frank Jardine and Alexander Jardine, title=The Overland Expedition of The Messrs. Jardine, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The creek at last crossed, the party attempted to push forward on the other side, but after travelling a mile leading the horses, slushing through bog and swamp under a heavy rain, they were obliged to turn back and encamp on some high ground on the banks of the creek, about half-a-mile above the crossing, where there was a little good grass. }}

To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.

Anagrams

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flush

English

(wikipedia flush)

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Noun

(es)

A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.2:

As when a Faulcon hath with nimble flight / Flowne at a flush of Ducks foreby the brooke […].

Verb

(es)

To cause to take flight from concealment.

The hunters flushed the tiger from the canebrake.

To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.

A covey of quail flushed from the undergrowth.

* W. Browne

flushing from one spray unto another

Etymology 2

Same as according to the American Heritage Dictionary

Adjective

(er)

smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.

Sand down the excess until it is flush with the surface.

wealthy or well off.

He just got a bonus so he's flush today.

(typography) Short for flush left and right ; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.

Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.

* Shakespeare

With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.

Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.

* Arbuthnot

Lord Strut was not very flush in ready.

Synonyms

* (typography) double-clean, flush left and right, forced, forced justified, force justified, justified

Derived terms

* flush left, flush right, flush left and right

Etymology 3

Probably from according to American Heritage Dictionary

Noun

(es)

A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.

* Ray

in manner of a wave or flush

Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.

A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.

* Tennyson

the flush of angered shame

Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.

the flush''' on the side of a peach; the '''flush on the clouds at sunset

A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.

a flush of joy

Verb

(es)

To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.

Flush the injury with plenty of water.

Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.

To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.

The damsel flushed at the scoundrel's suggestion.

To cause to blush.

* John Gay

Nor flush with shame the passing virgin's cheek.

* Keats

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, / Flushing his brow.

* 1925 , Fruit of the Flower , by

"Who plants a seed begets a bud, -- Extract of that same root; -- Why marvel at the hectic blood -- That flushes this wild fruit?"

To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.

to flush the meadows

To excite, inflame.

* South

such things as can only feed his pride and flush his ambition

(of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.

There must be somebody home: I just heard the toilet flushing .

(computing) To clear (a buffer) of its contents.

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.

Blood flushes into the face.

* Boyle

the flushing noise of many waters

To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.

* Milton

In her cheek, distemper flushing glowed.

(masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.

Usage notes

In sense “turn red with embarrassment”, (blush) is more common. More finely, in indicating the actual change, blush'' is more common – “He blushed with embarrassment” – but in indicating state, ''flushed is also common – “He was flushed with excitement”.

Synonyms

* (turn red with embarrassment) blush

Etymology 4

Probably from (etyl) , cognate with flux

Noun

(es)

(poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.

Derived terms

* busted flush * royal flush * straight flush