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Slosh vs Wabble - What's the difference?

slosh | wabble |

As verbs the difference between slosh and wabble

is that slosh is (of a liquid) to shift chaotically; to splash noisily while wabble is wobble, move to and fro.

As a noun slosh

is a quantity of a liquid; more than a splash or slosh can be (computing) backslash, the character.

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 .

    • wabble

    English

    Verb

    (wabbl)
  • wobble, move to and fro
  • *{{quote-book, year=1911, author=Milo Hastings, title=In the Clutch of the War-God, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Their planes wabble , the metal frame work is too stiff, it doesn't yield to the air pressure." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1966, author=Ambrose Bierce, title=The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Presently, as the sustaining centrifugal force lessened and failed, she began to sway and wabble from side to side, and finally, toppling over on her side, rolled convulsively on her back and lay motionless with all her feet in the air, honestly believing that the world had somehow got atop of her and she was supporting it at a great sacrifice of personal comfort. }}

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