| 释义 |
▪ I. splosh, n. colloq. and dial.|splɒʃ|
[Echoic: cf. splash n.1 and slosh n.]
1. The dull, splashing sound of the impact of a hard object striking or struck by something wet and soft; the impact itself. Also, a quantity of liquid suddenly dashed or dropped.
1857C. E. DeLong in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1930) IX. 133 Storming like fury..a mixture of snow and rain..splosh almost knee deep. 1895E. M. Stooke Not Exactly xi. 280 Arter all 'tis but dree minutes or zo of acoot zufferin' in th' grip o' Bill Brooks, then a bit of a splosh, an' hout the beggur comes. 1916J. K. Bangs From Pillar to Post xii. 235 The committee hustled me into the hall with no more damage than one rather slush splosh of snow. 1919W. Deeping Second Youth xii. 112 The roof had dropped a splosh of water on Uncle Reginald's new hat. 1936A. G. Street Gentleman of Party i. 11 An hour of steady splosh, splosh, splosh, of their horses' feet in thick batter of mud which creamed over the road. 1954L. M. Boston Children of Green Knowe 64 A [snow]flake landed on his cheek... He felt the splosh. 1983‘F. Parrish’ Bait on Hook ii. 35 'At splosh o' paint on the mudguard. Got reason to remember 'at, I 'ave.
2. slang. Money.
1893G. Elen 'E dunno where 'e Are (song) Since Jack Jones come into that little bit o' splosh. 1916‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin vi. 100 The show's orf 'less I kin raise some splosh some'ow. 1924Westm. Gaz. (weekly ed.) 30 Aug. 526/3 The gentleman in the Old Kent Road who came into a little bit of splosh. 1950Wodehouse Nothing Serious 216 The jolliness of having all that splosh in the old sock. 1967A. Wilson No Laughing Matter ii. 82 Intentions need a bit of splosh to back em up.
▪ II. splosh, v. (int. and adv.) colloq. and dial.
[f. prec.]
a. trans. To splash (something); to cause (something) to move with a splashing sound.
b. intr. To move with a splash. Also int. and as adv.
1890Harry Fludyer 47 Such larks when you heard the ball go splosh on a man's hat. 1901J. Prior Forest Folk xi. 111 Nell continued to turn the handle of her old barrel churn. Splash! splosh! went the cream. 1904Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 678/2 (S. Not.), What are yer sploshin the watter about for? 1923Wodehouse Inimit. Jeeves iii. 30, I began to sing like a bally nightingale as I sploshed the sponge away. 1924Galsworthy White Monkey ii. ix. 194 Down came death—splosh!—and a creature wiped out, like a fly on a wall. 1926Somerset Year Bk. 54 She brought down th' liddle shutter again splosh-bang. 1930R. Campbell Poems 10 Jack Squire through his own teardrops sploshes. 1931W. Faulkner in Amer. Mercury Mar. 261/2 She made the sound into the cup and the coffee sploshed out on to her hands and her dress. 1941W. Fortescue Trampled Lilies v. 61, I sploshed through the morass of mud and manure. 1966M. Woodhouse Tree Frog iii. 24 He was sploshing around in a quicksand. 1978S. Radley Death & Maiden i. 6 He sploshed on down the muddy track.
Hence ˈsploshing vbl. n.
1929W. Deeping Roper's Row xxx. 334 The sound of debate would cease suddenly. Boards creaked. Sploshings and sandpaperings recommenced. 1974P. Dickinson Poison Oracle v. 115 The awkward sploshings of his paddle..had been the loudest sounds in the marsh. |