slushyn.
/ˈslʌʃi/, U.S. /ˈsləʃi/ 1. A ship's cook; spec. as a nickname. Also in more gen. application: a cook; any unskilled kitchen or domestic help.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > ship's cook
cook1466
sea-cook1707
doctor1803
slushy1859
potwalloper1890
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > ship's cooks and assistants
shifter1704
sea-cook1707
doctor1803
slushy1859
cook's mate1865
potwalloper1890
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > others
artificera1553
man-catcher1649
stormer1655
sallier1685
pressmana1694
camp colour-man1753
sharpshooter1802
train soldier1833
escalader1849
adviser1854
outflanker1854
observer1870
spiker1884
mopper-up1917
slushy1919
wire-cutter1922
televisionary1925
flash-spotter1930
spotter1931
parashooter1940
parashot1940
bunker buster1944
sound-ranger1978
yomper1982
technical1992
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > unskilled or doing menial work
kitchen knave1440
scullion1483
sweep-house1621
sweep-gallery1705
scrubber1839
slushy1953
1859 in 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.
1887 H. Caine Deemster I. x. 211 The cook, better known as the slushy.
1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 46 Slushey, a mess orderly.
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.
1959 H. 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.
1967 C. Drummond Death at Furlong Post xii. 153 ‘You could get a job as a slushy in any restaurant,’ he pronounced, ‘good short-order cookery.’
1970 K. Giles Death in Church iv. 85 A grey-headed woman was crying in a corner—‘The part-time slushy,’ said Porterman.
2. = slusher n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook > [noun] > cook on sheep station
slusher1890
slushy1900
babbler1904
babbling brook1913
1900 H. Lawson On Track 135 As the shearers' ‘slushy’ hates the shearers' cook.
1904 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Sept. 39/1 Terms as usual, 4s. per man per week, the cook to find his own slushy.
1936 A. Russell Gone Nomad iii. 14 I had to take my turn at butchering the ration sheep and as ‘slushy’ to ‘Doughboy’ Terry, the cook.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
slushyadj.
/ˈslʌʃi/, U.S. /ˈsləʃi/ 1.
a. Covered with, consisting of, having the character of, slush (in senses 1a, 1b).
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the world > the earth > water > ice > [adjective] > covered with or of the consistency of slush
slushy1791
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [adjective] > thin or soft
slushy1791
sloshy1828
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > muddy
fennyc897
bymodereda1307
slutchedc1400
muddyc1450
miry?c1475
slabby1542
mired1558
mudded1598
muddied1642
mucksy1665
shabby1705
sludgy1782
slushy1791
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [adjective] > intensely cold, freezing, or frosty > characterized by slush (of weather) > consisting of or covered with slush
slushy1825
(a)
(b)1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Slush Slushie, abounding with snow in a state of liquefaction; as, ‘The streets are very slushie’.1858 B. Taylor Northern Trav. xvii. 174 Mud under foot, alternating with slushy snow.1878 R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at Home 42 The snow slips and comes down in slushy, icy fragments.1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 178 They bury themselves in the slushy bottoms of rivers and ponds.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Slushy, miry.
1861 E. A. Beaufort Egypt. Sepulchres I. 220 We..continued our road on the soft slushy sand along the edge of the wave.
1884 Good Words 25 156 Stepping through the sedges, regardless of the slushy footing.
b. Marked by the prevalence of slush.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [adjective] > intensely cold, freezing, or frosty > characterized by slush (of weather)
slushy1848
1848 W. M. Thackeray Contrib. to Punch in Wks. (1886) XXIV. 203 [He] came over ten miles to Squattleborough in the most slushy weather, and delivered four lectures.
1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. x. 304 There are slushy splashy raw comfortless mornings in..winter.
2.
a. Weak, washy.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adjective]
wallowc897
smatchless?c1225
unsavoury?c1225
fresha1398
savourlessa1398
wearish1398
wershed1398
fond?c1430
unsavoured1435
palled1440
mildc1450
walsh1513
wallowish1548
dead1552
waterish1566
cold1585
flatten1594
seasonless1595
wersha1599
blown1600
flash1601
fatuous1608
tasteless1611
flat1617
insipid1620
ingustable1623
flashy1625
flatted1626
saltless1633
gustless1636
remiss1655
rheumatical1655
untasteable1656
vapid1656
exolete1657
distasted1662
vappous1673
insulse1676
toothless1679
mawkisha1697
intastable1701
waugh1703
impoignant1733
flavourless1736
instimulating1740
deadish1742
mawky1755
brineless1791
wishy-washy1791
keestless1802
shilpit1814
wish-washy1814
sapidless1821
silent1826
slushy1839
bland1878
spendsavour1879
wish-wash1896
dolled1917
spiceless1980
the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [adjective] > qualities of tea
milkless1816
slushy1839
miserable1842
overdrawn1847
raw1881
mealy1892
stewy1895
tannined1898
potty1901
stiff1904
stewed1908
metallic1909
1839 W. McDowall Poems 117 in Eng. Dial. Dict. Can slushy tea ere be compared Wi' cogs o' brose?
1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxv. 111 Something stronger and better than water or slushy tea.
b. figurative. Rubbishy, trivial.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adjective]
sugary1591
maudlina1631
mawkish1702
sickly1766
emetic1770
mawky1773
pamby1820
sentimental1823
saccharine1841
sticky1841
mushy1848
sentimentalizing1856
Christmas card1860
maumish1866
slobbery1875
namby-pamby1883
sloppy1883
slushy1889
sentimentalistic1904
marshmallowy1907
hearts and flowers1911
slobby1913
soppy1918
meltyc1921
lavender1928
saccharescent1930
schmaltzya1934
sloshy1933
gooey1935
icky1938
cheesy1943
drippy1952
soupy1953
squishy1953
saccharined1962
gloopy1965
yechy1969
yucky1970
sucky1971
yuck1971
schmoozy1976
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible
unworthlyc1230
wretcha1250
seely1297
vilec1320
not worth a cress (kerse)1377
the value of a rushc1380
threadbarec1412
wretched1450
miserable?a1513
rascal1519
prettya1522
not worth a whistlea1529
pegrall1535
plack1539
pelting1540
scald1542
sleeveless1551
baggage1553
paltering1553
piddling1559
twopenny1560
paltry1565
rubbish1565
baggagely1573
pelfish1577
halfpenny1579
palting1579
baubling1581
three-halfpenny1581
pitiful1582
triobolar1585
squirting1589
not worth a lousea1592
hedge1596
cheap1597
peddling1597
dribbling1600
mean1600
rascally1600
three-farthingc1600
draughty1602
dilute1605
copper1609
peltry?a1610
threepenny1613
pelsy1631
pimping1640
triobolary1644
pigwidgeon1647
dustya1649
fiddling1652
puddlinga1653
insignificant1658
piteous1667
snotty1681
scrubbed1688
dishonourable1699
scrub1711
footy1720
fouty1722
rubbishing1731
chuck-farthing1748
rubbishy1753
shabby1753
scrubby1754
poxya1758
rubbishly1777
waff-like1808
trinkety1817
meanish1831
one-eyed1843
twiddling1844
measly1847
poking1850
picayunish1852
vild1853
picayune1856
snide1859
two-cent1859
rummagy1872
faddling1883
finicking1886
slushy1889
twopence halfpenny1890
jerk1893
pissy1922
crappy1928
two-bit1932
piddly1933
chickenshit1934
pissing1937
penny packet1943
farkakte1960
pony1964
gay1978
1889 Voice (N.Y.) 15 Aug. That is a slushy sentiment.
1894 Times 3 Jan. 7/5 A large portion of the British public is steeped in a sloppy and slushy sentimentalism.
3. Thick, indistinct.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > indistinct
thicka1398
undistinguished1595
obscure1656
muddy1841
thick-voiced1859
slushy1861
thick-speaking1861
woolly1872
stuffy1889
far-away1897
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations liv, in All Year Round 13 July 363/2 He spoke in a slushy voice.
Draft additions 1993
ˈslushily adv.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adverb]
mawkishly1816
sentimentally1816
dissolvingly1822
sweetly1840
maudlinly1854
sloppily1898
slushily1961
soppily1977
soupily1979
1961 in N. Webster
1972 Guardian 18 Mar. 13/3 The Anglo-Chinese thaw gets slushily under way.
1984 S. Townsend Growing Pains Adrian Mole 26 ‘Don't upset yourself, Mrs Mole,’ the woman said slushily. ‘We are here to help, you know.’
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