| 释义 |
▪ I. sloosh, n. dial. and colloq.|sluːʃ|
[Echoic: cf. slosh n., slush n.2 But perhaps partly a variant of sluice n.]
A pouring of water; a wash; a noise of, or as of, heavily splashing or rushing water.
1919Athenæum 11 July 582/2 Among the brand-new slang one may discern some that had an onomatopœic or at any rate an imitative origin; for instance ‘sloosh’, a wash. 1920Blackw. Mag. Apr. 500/2 There was the sloosh of bilge-water. 1926W. de la Mare Connoisseur 187 Mr. Thripp..not only tidied up his own and Tilda's bedroom..but even gave a sloosh to the bath. 1973C. Bonington Next Horizon v. 88 He got about half-way up, and suddenly there was a sloosh, and he came shooting down the steep snow. 1981P. Theroux Mosquito Coast xiv. 173 The only sounds were the flap and splash..and the sloosh of water in the culverts.
▪ II. sloosh, v. dial. and colloq.|sluːʃ|
[Echoic: cf. slosh v.1, slush v. But perhaps partly a variant of sluice v.]
1. trans.
a. To wash with a copious supply of water; to pour water or other liquid copiously over.
1912W. de la Mare Child's Day 10 Elizabeth Ann..stands slooshing herself With that 'normous sponge. 1933G. Murray tr. Acharnians in Aristophanes i. 27 Niagara'd me and slooshed me, till—almost—In so much sewage I gave up the ghost.
b. To pour with a rush, to dash (water).
1952L. A. G. Strong Darling Tom 129 The butcher's boy in his blue Sunday suit had got the gardener's wheeled tank from the park, and was slooshing water down the area.
2. intr. To make a heavy splashing or rushing noise; to flow or pour with a rush.
1914[see clicky a.]. 1920Blackw. Mag. Apr. 502/2 The slooshing bilge-water. 1971C. Bonington Annapurna South Face xii. 153 Tom knocked it [sc. the primus stove] over, sending the liquid slooshing over the tent floor. Ibid. xiii. 167 Instant porridge..a hot, palatable food that simply slooshed down the throat. 1981P. Theroux Mosquito Coast xxvi. 345 She gazed at the torrent of water slooshing downstream.
So ˈslooshy v. trans. = sloosh v. 1 a.
1907W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short xlix. 531 But Cook was turning cataracts of water into her sink, to slooshy it well out after a real good wash-up. |