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▪ I. slushy, n.|ˈslʌʃɪ|
Also slushey, slushie.
[f. slush n.1 or v.]
a. A ship's cook; spec. as a nickname. Also in more gen. application: a cook; any unskilled kitchen or domestic help.
b. = slusher 1.
1859in Slang Dict. 96. 1876 F. W. H. Symondson Two Years abaft Mast xiii. 261 An unexpected roll of the ship sent both pig and cook sliding... There was ‘Slushy’ sometimes over, sometimes under the pig. 1887Hall Caine Deemster x, The cook, better known as the slushy. 1900H. Lawson On Track 135 As the shearers' ‘slushy’ hates the shearers' cook. 1904Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Sept. 39/1 Terms as usual, 4s. per man per week, the cook to find his own slushy. 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 46 Slushey, a mess orderly. 1936A. Russell Gone Nomad iii. 14, I had to take my turn at butchering the ration sheep and as ‘slushy’ to ‘Doughboy’ Terry, the cook. 1936[see poisoner b]. 1953‘Caddie’ Sydney Barmaid 25 Nellie, a wisp of a girl who was slushie at Mrs Murphy's boarding-house. Slushie was the name given to anyone who worked at a camp boarding-house. 1959H. P. Tritton Time means Tucker 25/2 Having over 100 men to cook for, he selected two off-siders, sometimes called ‘slushies’, and started his duties immediately. 1967C. Drummond Death at Furlong Post xii. 153 ‘You could get a job as a slushy in any restaurant,’ he pronounced, ‘good short-order cookery.’ 1970K. Giles Death in Church iv. 85 A grey-headed woman was crying in a corner—‘The part-time slushy,’ said Porterman.
▪ II. slushy, a.|ˈslʌʃɪ|
[f. slush n.1]
1. Covered with, consisting of, having the character of, slush (in senses 1 a and 1 b).
(a)1791W. Bartram Carolina 178 They bury themselves in the slushy bottoms of rivers and ponds. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia 309 Slushy, miry. 1861E. A. Beaufort Egypt. Sepul. & Syrian Shrines I. 220 We..continued our road on the soft slushy sand along the edge of the wave. 1884Good Words 156 Stepping through the sedges, regardless of the slushy footing.
(b)1825Jamieson Suppl. s.v., Slushie, abounding with snow in a state of liquefaction; as, ‘The streets are very slushie.’ 1857B. Taylor North. Trav. xvii. 174 Mud under foot, alternating with slushy snow. 1878Jefferies Gamekeeper at H. 42 The snow slips and comes down in slushy, icy fragments.
b. Marked by the prevalence of slush.
1848Thackeray Contrib. to Punch Wks. 1886 XXIV. 203 [He] came over ten miles to Squattleborough in the most slushy weather, and delivered four lectures. 1871M. Collins Marq. & Merch. I. x. 304 There are slushy splashy raw comfortless mornings in..winter.
2. Weak, washy.
1839McDowall Poems 117 (E.D.D.), Can slushy tea ere be compared Wi' cogs o' brose? 1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. xxv, Something stronger and better than water or slushy tea.
b. fig. Rubbishy, trivial.
1889Voice (N.Y.) 15 Aug., That is a slushy sentiment. 1894Times 3 Jan. 7/5 A large portion of the British public is steeped in a sloppy and slushy sentimentalism.
3. Thick, indistinct.
1861Dickens Gt. Expect. III. 250 He spoke in a slushy voice.
Add: Hence ˈslushily adv.
1961in Webster. 1972Guardian 18 Mar. 13/3 The Anglo-Chinese thaw gets slushily under way. 1984S. Townsend Growing Pains A. Mole 26 ‘Don't upset yourself, Mrs Mole,’ the woman said slushily. ‘We are here to help, you know.’ |