different between slosh vs losh

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

(onomatopoeia); compare splash, splosh.

Verb

slosh (third-person singular simple present sloshes, present participle sloshing, simple past and past participle sloshed)

1. (intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

   The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.

2. (transitive, of a liquid) To cause to slosh

   The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.

3. (intransitive) To make a sloshing sound.

   They were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.

4. (transitive, of a liquid) To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts

   The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.

   He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.

5. (intransitive) to move noisily through water or other liquid.

   The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.

6. (Britain, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).

Derived terms

• aslosh

Translations

Noun

slosh (countable and uncountable, plural sloshes)

1. (countable) A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.

   We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.

2. (countable) A sloshing sound or motion.
3. (uncountable) Slush.
   • 2012, Cathy Gohlke, Promise Me This (page 299)

     Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.

Coordinate terms

• splash

Etymology 2

By analogy with slash.

Noun

slosh (plural sloshes)

1. (computing, slang) backslash, the character \.

Anagrams

• Sohls

English

Etymology

From Scots losh.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??/

Interjection

losh

1. (Scotland) Expressing surprise, wonder etc.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 130:

     and then he said Chrissie! Tired? and she said Losh, no, and my name's Chris, Ewan.

Anagrams

• Lohs, Sohl, hols

Albanian

Etymology

From lot.

Adjective

losh m (feminine loshe)

1. tearful

Related terms

• lot

Scots

Etymology

Deformation of English Lord.

Interjection

losh

1. gosh, Lord