slush
English
Etymology
Most likely imitative; related to slosh.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /slʌʃ/
- Rhymes: -ʌʃ
Noun
slush (usually uncountable, plural slushes)
- Half-melted snow or ice.
- As the skiing season drew to an end, there was nothing but slush left on the piste.
- Liquid mud or mire.
- Flavored shaved ice served as a drink.
- A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
- The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
- (engineering) A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
- (publishing) Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.
Synonyms
- (snow): slush ice
- (flavored shaved ice served as a drink): slushy, slushie, slurpee, Slurpee, slush puppy, Slush Puppie
Derived terms
- slushy
- slush fund
- slush puppy (non-alcoholic)
- Slush Puppy (alcoholic drink)
- slushbreaker
Translations
half-melted snow
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liquid mud or mire
flavored shaved ice served as a drink
Verb
slush (third-person singular simple present slushes, present participle slushing, simple past and past participle slushed)
- To smear with slushy liquid or grease.
- To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.
- 1907, Nicholas Carter, A Woman at Bay:
- They climbed over fallen and moss-grown logs; they slushed through shallow water; they crawled on their hands and knees under embankments and rocks, and at last, at Handsome's order, they stepped into a boat of some kind which the latter pushed away from the bank with a pole.
- 1888, Wilfrid Chateauclair, The Young Seigneur:
- But as the boat stuck in the bottom and refused to stir, he suddenly dropped his hold, and with an "Avance done!" gallantly slushed his way into the water alongside, in his Sunday trousers, lifted the gunwale and started her afloat, amidst a shower of final "Au revoirs," and the rose chaloupe moved with noiseless smoothness down the current.
- 1867, Frank Jardine and Alexander Jardine, The Overland Expedition of The Messrs. Jardine:
- The creek at last crossed, the party attempted to push forward on the other side, but after travelling a mile leading the horses, slushing through bog and swamp under a heavy rain, they were obliged to turn back and encamp on some high ground on the banks of the creek, about half-a-mile above the crossing, where there was a little good grass.
- To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈslus/, [ˈs̠lus̠]
- IPA(key): /ˈsluʃ/, [ˈs̠luʃ]
Declension
Inflection of slush (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | slush | slushit | |
genitive | slushin | slushien | |
partitive | slushia | slusheja | |
illative | slushiin | slusheihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | slush | slushit | |
accusative | nom. | slush | slushit |
gen. | slushin | ||
genitive | slushin | slushien | |
partitive | slushia | slusheja | |
inessive | slushissa | slusheissa | |
elative | slushista | slusheista | |
illative | slushiin | slusheihin | |
adessive | slushilla | slusheilla | |
ablative | slushilta | slusheilta | |
allative | slushille | slusheille | |
essive | slushina | slusheina | |
translative | slushiksi | slusheiksi | |
instructive | — | slushein | |
abessive | slushitta | slusheitta | |
comitative | — | slusheineen |
Synonyms
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