slosh
A quantity of a liquidA quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.
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» Tom is sloshed.
Tom ist besoffen. — Felixjp
Том п'яний. — deniko
Том напився. — deniko
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
6 senses(countable)A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.
We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.
(countable)A sloshing sound or motion.
(uncountable)Slush.
(countable, slang, uncountable)Inferior wine or other drink.
(uncountable)A game related to billiards.
(slang)Backslash, the character \.
Examples
25 sentencesTom is sloshed.
Том п'яний. — deniko
deTom ist besoffen. — Felixjp
Tom seemed to be sloshed.
Tom was sloshed.
Are you sloshed?
Tom was completely sloshed.
ruТом был пьян в стельку. — odexed
deTom war voll besoffen. — wolfgangth
Origin
Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh. By analogy with slash.Forms
plural: sloshesWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.