slosh
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /slɒʃ/
美 /slɑʃ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.
— We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.
- backslash, the character \.
- A sloshing sound or motion.
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Slush.
— Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.
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Inferior wine or other drink.
— In the Midi, Grenache dominates most of the traditional appellations. Corbières, Minervois, Fitou, Faugères — these were once bywords for rough-and-ready red slosh.
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A game related to billiards.
— Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty. We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.
动词 v.
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To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
— The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.
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To cause to slosh.
— The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.
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To make a sloshing sound.
— His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.
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To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.
— The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.
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to move noisily through water or other liquid.
— The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.
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To punch (someone).
— 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.
词源
词源 1
Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh.
词源 2
By analogy with slash.
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