aslosh

English

Etymology

a- + slosh

Adjective

aslosh (comparative more aslosh, superlative most aslosh)

  1. 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.
  2. (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.

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