Slosh vs Splosh - What's the difference?
slosh | splosh |
(of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
(British, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).
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, 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.}}
A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash
(computing) backslash, the character .
to make the sound of splashing
to traverse mushy or marshy wetlands
to spill or spill over
As verbs the difference between slosh and splosh
is that slosh is to shift chaotically; to splash noisily while splosh is to make the sound of splashing.As a noun slosh
is a quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.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.