Lexicographical Neighbors of Sposh
Literary usage of Sposh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1859)
"sposh. A mixture of mud and water. See Slush. The New York Tribune, in speaking
of the falling of rain and snow at the same time, adds: The morning was blue ..."
2. Fifty Years with the Gun and Rod by David Wallace Cross (1880)
"... will be astonished that so shy and wild a bird will be so great a "bull-head;"
he will come right on to you; then right and left, bang! bang!—"sposh! ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1853)
"... and had progressed perhaps half as many miles, we found ourselves under
necessity to land on account of the ' sposh ice ' thickening round us ; in doing ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"If you ever get sposh — and it 's very likely you may, running across the street
among the stages the way you do — Mace and I, if we 're about, ..."
5. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"Laus ale vere : sposH bn scst here ; that is, Laus anime vere sponsion bene sensit
habere. The antitype on the right is an ..."
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