单词 | splosh |
释义 | splosh (once / 127090 pages) v To splosh is to move with a splashing sound or motion. You might splosh through a marsh to retrieve your escaped canoe. You can splosh through the surf as you wait for a good body surfing wave, or you can splosh a pan of soapy water into your sink. Before most of us learn to swim, we mainly splosh through the water, keeping our feet touching the bottom of the pool. The word splosh sounds just like its meaning — its origin is imitative, very similar to splash. Both words were first used in the mid-nineteenth century. WORD FAMILYsplosh: sploshed, sploshing USAGE EXAMPLESBiscuits are breakfast food, a bit of wholesomeness mediating between fried eggs and a splosh of blueberry jam. Los Angeles Times(May 23, 2016) I sop up ham gravey and splosh my eggs in with my grits. Alice Walker, The Color Purple(1982) The water sploshed under his feet, and he could feel his socks getting wet. Susan Beth Pfeffer, The Dead and the Gone(2008) 1v dash a liquid upon or against Syn|Hypo|Hyper plash, spatter, splash, splatter, swash puddle make a puddle by splashing water slosh, slosh around, slush, slush aroundspill or splash copiously or clumsily disperse, dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle distribute loosely 2v make a splashing sound Syn|Hyper slosh, slush, splash go, sound make a certain noise or sound 3v walk through mud or mire We had to splosh across the wet meadow Syn|Hyper slop, slosh, splash, squelch, squish footslog, pad, plod, slog, tramp, trudge walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud 4v cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force Syn|Hypo|Hyper splash, sprinkle salt sprinkle as if with salt drizzle, moistenmoisten with fine drops disperse, dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle distribute loosely |
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