aslosh
English
Adjective
aslosh (comparative more aslosh, superlative most aslosh)
- Sloshing; full of, covered or soaked (with or in a liquid).
- 1972, John Brandi, in Y Aun Hay Mas, Santa Barbara, CA: Christopher’s Books, p. 66,
- Ladies aslosh in dirty streamwater bubbling into ditches to drain the beating rain.
- 1994, Lance Olsen, Tonguing the Zeitgeist, San Francisco: Permeable Press, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 73,
- He began to hack wetly, as though his lungs were aslosh with mud,
- 2000, Mary Karr, Cherry, Penguin, 2001, Chapter 23, p. 268,
- So while you’d rather chew linoleum than dance with Effie—not to mention the fact that your bladder is aslosh—a refusal would open the door to interpretation.
- 1972, John Brandi, in Y Aun Hay Mas, Santa Barbara, CA: Christopher’s Books, p. 66,
- (figuratively) Having a large quantity of, abounding (with or in something).
- 1969, Aloïse Buckley Heath, Will Mrs. Major Go to Hell? New York: National Review, 1990, Chapter 21, p. 198,
- I hope I’m not giving anyone the impression that Ben and I are not respecters of tradition, because the fact is that we’re simply aslosh with traditions.
- 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, London: Serpent’s Tail, p. 286,
- […] the whole country aslosh in cash from a buoyant stock market, demand for the really dirt-cheap travel in which we specialized had dropped.
- 1969, Aloïse Buckley Heath, Will Mrs. Major Go to Hell? New York: National Review, 1990, Chapter 21, p. 198,
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