Slush

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slush \Slush\ (sl[u^]sh), n. [Cf. Sw. slaska to paddle in water,
     slask wet, filth.] [Written also {slosh}.]
     1. Soft mud.
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     2. A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.


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     3. A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for
        lubrication.
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     4. The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially
        on shipboard.
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     5. (Mach.) A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the
        bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of
        steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slush \Slush\ (sl[u^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slushed}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Slushing}.]
     1. To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.
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     2. To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slush
       n : partially melted snow
       v 1: make a splashing sound; "water was splashing on the floor"
            [syn: {splash}, {splosh}, {slosh}]
       2: spill or splash copiously or clumsily; "slosh paint all over
          the walls" [syn: {slosh}, {slosh around}, {slush around}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "slush":
     avalanche, bathos, big mouth, bleeding heart, blizzard, candor,
     clay, cloyingness, communicativeness, conversableness, crystal,
     driven snow, effusion, effusiveness, flake, flow of words,
     flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flurry, flux de bouche,
     flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, garrulity,
     garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab, glibness, glop, goo,
     granular snow, gregariousness, gumbo, gunk, gush, gushiness,
     hearts-and-flowers, igloo, long-windedness, loose tongue,
     loquaciousness, loquacity, mantle of snow, maudlinness,
     mawkishness, mire, mogul, muck, mud, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby,
     namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, ooze,
     openness, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, prolixity,
     romanticism, scum, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slab,
     slime, slip, slob, slop, sloppiness, slosh, sludge, snow,
     snow banner, snow bed, snow blanket, snow blast, snow fence,
     snow flurry, snow roller, snow slush, snow squall, snow wreath,
     snow-crystal, snowball, snowbank, snowbridge, snowcap, snowdrift,
     snowfall, snowfield, snowflake, snowland, snowman, snowscape,
     snowshed, snowslide, snowslip, snowstorm, soap opera, sob story,
     sociability, spate of words, splosh, squash, sweetness and light,
     swill, talkativeness, tearjerker, verbosity, volubility, wet snow,
     windiness