aslosh
English
Adjective
aslosh (comparative more aslosh, superlative most aslosh)
- Sloshing; full of, covered or soaked (with or in a liquid).
- 1972, John Brandi, Y Aun Hay Mas, Santa Barbara, CA: Christopher’s Books, page 66:
- Ladies aslosh in dirty streamwater bubbling into ditches to drain the beating rain.
- 1994, Lance Olsen, Tonguing the Zeitgeist, San Francisco: Permeable Press, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 73,
- He began to hack wetly, as though his lungs were aslosh with mud,
- 2000, Mary Karr, chapter 23, in Cherry, Penguin, published 2001, page 268:
- So while you’d rather chew linoleum than dance with Effie—not to mention the fact that your bladder is aslosh—a refusal would open the door to interpretation.
- (figurative) Having a large quantity of, abounding (with or in something).
- 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, London: Serpent’s Tail, page 286:
- […] the whole country aslosh in cash from a buoyant stock market, demand for the really dirt-cheap travel in which we specialized had dropped.
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