slosh

/slɑʃ/

Other forms: sloshing; sloshed; sloshes

When liquid things slosh, they move with a splash. If you stumble as you're carrying a cup of coffee to the table, your coffee may slosh over the edge of the cup.

Only something that's wet can slosh — water might slosh around in the bottom of a leaky rowboat, and soapsuds can slosh in a bathtub when a happy kid gets in. You can slosh tea into a mug, or slosh through puddles in your rain boots. The 1800's meaning of slosh was "slush or sludge," and the Middle English definition was "muddy place," probably from a combination of slush and slop.

Definitions of slosh

1. verb

   spill or splash copiously or clumsily
   “slosh paint all over the walls”

   synonyms: slosh around, slush, slush around

   type of:

   plash, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swash

   dash a liquid upon or against
2. verb

   make a splashing sound
   synonyms: slush, splash, splosh

   type of:

   go, sound

   make a certain noise or sound
3. verb

   walk through mud or mire
   synonyms: slop, splash, splosh, squelch, squish

   type of:

   footslog, pad, plod, slog, tramp, trudge

   walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud