Definition

1. 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.

2. 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.

Noun

1. partially melted snow

Verb

1. spill or splash copiously or clumsily
   • slosh paint all over the walls
2. make a splashing sound
   • water was splashing on the floor