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Definition of Slosh around
1. Verb. Spill or splash copiously or clumsily. "Slosh paint all over the walls"
Generic synonyms: Plash, Spatter, Splash, Splatter, Splosh, Swash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slosh Around
Literary usage of Slosh around
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"slosh around, to,. a Western slang phrase, taking its force from the colloquial
term slosh or ... To slosh around means to go about, ..."
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1881)
"Devils don't slosh around much of a Sunday, I don't reckon." " I never thought
of that. That's so. Lemme go with you ? " " Of course—if you ain't afeard. ..."
3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"The body of water must be compact, so that it cannot slosh around. A shifting
ballast would not do, of course. The modern ship is full of beautiful ..."
4. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"How could their [the witches'] charms work till midnight V— and then it's Sunday.
Devils don't slosh around much of a Sunday. Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, p. 67. ..."
5. Freemasonry in the Holy Land: Or, Handmarks of Hiram's Builders; Embracing by Robert Morris (1872)
"... Phoenicians slosh around and break things as they do in Alabama ? If not, why
so many broken vessels? But this discovery stopped further purchases of ..."
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