Crossword clues for splosh
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.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 to make the sound of splash 2 to traverse mushy or marshy wetlands 3 to spill or spill over
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 with force; "She splashed the water around her" [syn: sprinkle, splash]
dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water" [syn: spatter, splatter, plash, splash, swash]
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.