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Swash vs Slosh - What's the difference?

swash | slosh |

As nouns the difference between swash and slosh

is that swash is the water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken while slosh is a quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.

As verbs the difference between swash and slosh

is that swash is to swagger; to bluster and brag while slosh is to shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

As an adjective swash

is soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.

swash

English

Noun

  • The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken
  • (typography) a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
  • A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
  • (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
  • (obsolete) A blustering noise.
  • (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
  • (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
  • (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
  • (Moxon)
    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To swagger; to bluster and brag.
  • To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
  • *1851 ,
  • How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!
  • To fall violently or noisily.
  • (Holinshed)

    See also

    * swashbuckler * swash letter

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.
  • (Pegge)

    Anagrams

    *

    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 .