slush
/slʌʃ/
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Definition
Noun:
- Partially melted snow or ice: A mixture of snow and water, typically found on the ground during or after a thaw.
- Sentimental or trivial writing or talk: Language or ideas considered excessively emotional, romantic, or lacking in substance.
- Grease or fat waste: Unwanted grease or fat, especially from a ship's galley.
Verb:
- To spill or splash (a liquid) copiously or clumsily: To cause a liquid to flow or fall in a messy, uncontrolled way.
- To make a splashing sound: To move with or produce a soft, wet, sucking or splashing noise.
- To cover or fill with slush: To apply a watery mixture, such as a protective coating.
Examples of Usage
Noun:
- After the warm day, the streets were covered in dirty slush.
- I can't stand the romantic slush in that novel; it's so unrealistic.
- The cook disposed of the slush from the frying pans.
Verb:
- The child slushed water all over the kitchen floor.
- Our boots slushed through the melting snow.
- The workers slushed the metal parts with a protective oil.
Advanced Usage
"Slush fund": A reserve of money used for illicit or corrupt purposes, especially in politics or business.
- The investigation revealed a secret slush fund used for bribes.
"To slush over": To become covered or filled with slush.
- The path slushed over as the temperature rose.
Variants and Related Words
Slushy (adj): Resembling or consisting of slush; also, overly sentimental.
- The roads were slushy and dangerous.
- The movie was a slushy romance.
Slosh (v/n): A synonym for the verb meaning to splash or spill liquid clumsily, or for the sound/sensation of doing so.
- Water sloshed in the bucket.
Synonyms
- Noun (melted snow): Slop, meltwater, mush.
- Noun (trivial talk): Sentimentality, mush, schmaltz.
- Verb (splash): Splash, spill, slosh, splatter.
Related Phrasal Verbs
Slush around: To move through or stir up slush.
- The car slushed around in the deep puddles.
Slush up: To make something wet and muddy with slush.
- The dog slushed up the hallway with its paws.
Related Idioms
A heart of slush: An overly sentimental or easily swayed emotional nature.
- Don't listen to his apologies; he has a heart of slush.
To be in a slush: To be in a state of confusion or messiness, often emotional or situational.
- After the argument, my thoughts were in a slush.
Verb
- spill or splash copiously or clumsily
- slosh paint all over the walls
- make a splashing sound
- water was splashing on the floor