slush
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
Etymology: May be a variant of sludge or imitative like slosh. Perhaps a confluence of both influences.
Inflected forms:
form: slushes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slushes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slushing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slushed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slushed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: As the skiing season drew to an end, there was nothing but slush left on the piste.
gloss: Liquid mud or mire.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Flavored shaved ice served as a drink (a slushie).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To smear with slushy liquid or grease.
pos: verb
examples: The ungrateful “they” are Brooklynites who’ve come to see Harding-Mamary creations as a chain, where you can get it venti in a ramekin with crème fraîche or slushed with guava and salt on the rim.
gloss: To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.
pos: verb
examples: The water was soon slushing merrily over the deck, while the smoke pouring from the cabin stove carried a promise of good things to come.
Sitting inside the Starbucks on Broadway near Roscoe, two art students had tired of sketching people slushing through the two-day-old snow.
A belated freshman, his oilskin slicker rasping loudly, slushed along the soft path.
The deck below me was littered with chests, sea boots, and odds and ends of clothing, while farther aft considerable water had found entrance through the scuttle hole, and was slushing back and forth as the bark rolled.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
pos: verb
Derived words: slushball
slushbreaker
slush-cast
slushflow
slush fund
slushie
slushpile
Slush Puppy
slush puppy
slushy
slushbox
slusher
slush up
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