▪ I. sloshing, vbl. n.
(ˈslɒʃɪŋ)
[f. slosh v.1]
1. Splashing; the sound made by a moving liquid when it comes into contact with a solid object.
| 1888 F. Cowper Caedwalla 54 They could just hear the sloshing sound made by his feet as he got into the mud. 1894 Times 12 Apr. 13/3 She next heard a ‘sloshing’ of water. Ibid., All the time that she was listening she heard the ‘sloshing’ of water. |
2. = hiding vbl. n.2
| 1931 T. R. G. Lyell Slang, Phrase & Idiom 693 He ran up against a gang of roughs in the street last night, and they gave him an awful sloshing! |
▪ II. sloshing, ppl. a.
(ˈslɒʃɪŋ)
[f. slosh v.1 + -ing.]
Splashing or slopping; containing a liquid which sloshes about.
| 1924 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 578/1 At the third cast there was a queer sloshing rise. 1958 ‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs ix. 94 A sloshing mannequin made of their lone water barrel topped by the sack of flour. 1977 Washington Post 21 Mar. a5/5 Subject to the sloshing ebb and flow of the ocean's tides, it will never run dry. 1984 Time (Overseas ed.) 6 Feb. 52/3 In one dreamlike scene, Russian soldiers are shown marching in slow motion, each carrying a rifle and a sloshing goldfish bowl. |