Definitions

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  • verb to make the sound of splashing
  • verb to traverse mushy or marshy wetlands
  • verb to spill or spill over

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb walk through mud or mire
  • verb cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
  • verb make a splashing sound
  • verb dash a liquid upon or against

Etymologies

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(onomatopoeia). Connected with splash and splish by vowel apophony (sound change); compare with Indo-European ablaut as in sing/sang/sung/song. Compare also slosh.

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Examples

  • At every step the water oozed out and _slop, splosh, slop, splosh_, still went his shoes.

    Seven O'Clock Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

  • Sometimes called splosh, sometimes "wet and messy", it always involves goopy fluids on a lady.

    Pop Crunch 2010

  • Asterisks never even noticed it, but next moment when something fell with a thudding 'splosh' on the wet ground behind the trench the men nearest the spot lifted their heads and stared curiously.

    Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

  • I thought how I would have a malenky bit longer in the bed, an hour or two say, and then get dressed nice and easy, perhaps even having a splosh about in the bath, make toast for myself and slooshy the radio or read the gazetta, all on my oddy knocky.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • Then, with a final dismissive splosh, he steps back, still grimly unsmiling, to make way for a second character, the munashfi.

    Why Syria scrubs up so well 2010

  • Long gone are the days when people were forced to skulk in the sexual shadows on account of their lifelong splosh fetish.

    Archive 2009-04-01 juliette 2009

  • Long gone are the days when people were forced to skulk in the sexual shadows on account of their lifelong splosh fetish.

    28 Dates Later juliette 2009

  • These will include highly respected Croydonian Erudite Nick Drew witty City Unslicker and Ed. Do pop in for a splosh of egg nog if you cannot resist ,6.30 PM 1-3 Tooley Street, Southwark, London, SE1 2PF

    The Stars Come Out Newmania 2007

  • These will include highly respected Croydonian Erudite Nick Drew witty City Unslicker and Ed. Do pop in for a splosh of egg nog if you cannot resist ,6.30 PM 1-3 Tooley Street, Southwark, London, SE1 2PF

    Archive 2007-12-09 Newmania 2007

  • July 9, 2008 at 11:27 pm constipated would be more like “hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn……*splosh*… ah”

    nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

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