slosh
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++slosh /slɒʃ $ slɑːʃ/ verb 1 [intransitive, transitive always + adverb/preposition]LIQUID if a liquid sloshes somewhere, or if you slosh it, it moves or is moved about in an uncontrolled way （使）〔液体〕晃荡 SYN slopslosh around/about Water was sloshing about in the bottom of the boat. 水在船底哗啦哗啦地荡漾。 He put the glass down hard and beer sloshed over the edge. 他重重地把杯子放下，啤酒从杯沿溅了出来。2 [transitive always + adverb/preposition] to put a liquid in a container or on a surface in a careless way 哗哗地倒，胡乱地倒 SYN slop Jo sloshed more wine into her glass. 乔往她杯子里哗啦哗啦地倒了更多的酒。 Slosh a bit of paint on. 倒点油漆上去。3 [intransitive always + adverb/preposition]WALK to walk through water or mud in a noisy way 吧唧吧唧地走过 SYN splash People were sloshing around in the mud. 大家在烂泥里吧唧吧唧地走。→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
slosh• He pushed off from one wall, ran two steps, did a belly-flop and sloshed across the floor.• I thought my friend, Irena, was joking when she dragged me, sloshing and sliding, towards the highway.• It is with Chaplin's personal life that Attenborough sloshes around the whitewash like a demented house-painter.• Three inches of water sloshed back and forth inside the basket, and it was not fresh water but salt.• Edith Mallory made her way through the crowd, carrying a sloshing cup of cider.• He sloshed onward, to the other side of the street.• We sloshed over to the other side of the street.slosh around/about• It is used less and less as people have cracked down because of its toxicity - it used to be sloshed around.• He sloshed around in a cold river in a halfhearted suicide attempt.• He actually heard it slosh around in his crotch.• While some of last year's stockpile has vanished, a lot of oil is still sloshing around in storage.• The confusion over propellant was due to the propellant sloshing about in the tanks during the powered descent.• There ought to be enough intelligence sloshing around in the world for humans to have some too.• One reason is that there is a lot of money sloshing around the television industry.• It is with Chaplin's personal life that Attenborough sloshes around the whitewash like a demented house-painter.Origin slosh (1800-1900) Probably from slop + slushslosh verbChinese
or sloshes if a somewhere, Corpus if liquid
slosh
slosh /slɒʃ $ slɑːʃ/
verb
SYN slop
slosh around/about
Water was sloshing about in the bottom of the boat.
He put the glass down hard and beer sloshed over the edge.
2. [transitive always + adverb/preposition] to put a liquid in a container or on a surface in a careless way
SYN slop:
Jo sloshed more wine into her glass.
Slosh a bit of paint on.
3. [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to walk through water or mud in a noisy way
SYN splash:
People were sloshing around in the mud.
slosh /slɒʃ $ slɑːʃ/
verb Date: 1800-1900
Origin: Probably from slop + slush
1. [intransitive, transitive always + adverb/preposition] if a liquid sloshes somewhere, or if you slosh it, it moves or is moved about in an uncontrolled way Origin: Probably from slop + slush
SYN slop
slosh around/about
2. [transitive always + adverb/preposition] to put a liquid in a container or on a surface in a careless way
SYN slop:
3. [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to walk through water or mud in a noisy way
SYN splash:
