aslosh

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ slosh.

Adjective

aslosh (comparative more aslosh, superlative most aslosh)

1. Sloshing; full of, covered or soaked (with or in a liquid).
   • 1972, John Brandi, Y Aun Hay Mas‎^[1], 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,^[2]

     He began to hack wetly, as though his lungs were aslosh with mud,

   • 2000, Mary Karr, chapter 23, in Cherry‎^[3], 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.

2. (figurative) Having a large quantity of, abounding (with or in something).
   • 1969, Aloïse Buckley Heath, chapter 21, in Will Mrs. Major Go to Hell?‎^[4], New York: National Review, published 1990, page 198:

     I hope I’m not giving anyone the impression that Ben and I are not respecters of tradition, because the fact is that we’re simply aslosh with traditions.

   • 2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin‎^[5], 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.

Synonyms

• awash

Anagrams

• Sohals, shoals, sholas, solahs