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Walk, as through melting snow
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splosh
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. make a splashing sound; "water was splashing on the floor" [syn: splash , slosh , slush ] walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow" [syn: squelch , squish , splash , slosh , slop ] cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 to make the sound of splash 2 to traverse mushy or marshy wetlands 3 to spill or spill over
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1889 [in Farmer, who calls it "A New England variant of splash "], ultimately imitative. Perhaps influenced by splish-splosh "sound made by feet walking through wet" (1881). Related: Sploshed ; sploshing .
Usage examples of splosh.
Chuck had come to expect: a wide, high-ceilinged hall painted white, with a few, a very few, people staring at some impenetrable frames containing a splosh of paint or two, and maybe a curled-up statue that looked like it was suffering horrible internal distress.
I thought how I would have a malenky bit longer in the bed, an hour or two say, and then get dressed nice and easy, perhaps even having a splosh about in the bath, make toast for myself and slooshy the radio or read the gazetta, all on my oddy knocky.
She had come to rest close by, but a classical exposition of nereids and their affinities was obscured by sploshes as prudent Lydia sculled backward.