Picture a bucket that is only half full, carried down a hall. The water has room to swing, so it runs up one side, slaps back, and now and then goes over the rim — and the whole time you can hear it. That wet swinging sound is where the word itself comes from, and every use of slosh keeps some part of the picture: sometimes the liquid is doing the swinging, sometimes a person is throwing it about, sometimes a person is walking through it and making the same noise with their feet.
From the word’s history
The word is onomatopoeic — it was made from the sound itself, and it sits in the same family as splash and splosh.
slosh 是擬聲字，直接從那個聲音造出來的，跟 splash、splosh 是同一個聲音家族。所以「聲音」不是它的引申義，而是它一開始就有的東西——這也解釋了為什麼從液體、到倒法、到走路，每個意思都帶著聲音。
packet Wiktionary etymology_text for slosh (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1266733970): "Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh."
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原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sloshverb詞源 1/slɒʃ/
- 1
To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
- The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.
- 2
To cause to slosh.
- The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.
- 3
To make a sloshing sound.
- His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.
- 4
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
to move noisily through water or other liquid.
- The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.
- 6
To punch (someone).
- She greeted me with a bright smile, and said: “Back already? Did you find it?” With a strong effort I mastered my emotion and replied curtly but civilly that the answer was in the negative. “No,” I said, “I did not find it.” “You can't have looked properly.” Again I was compelled to pause and remind myself that an English gentleman does not slosh a sitting redhead, no matter what the provocation.
sloshnoun詞源 1/slɒʃ/
- 1
A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.
- We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.
- 2
A sloshing sound or motion.
- 3
Slush.
- Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.
- 4
slangInferior wine or other drink.
- In the Midi, Grenache dominates most of the traditional appellations. Corbières, Minervois, Fitou, Faugères — these were once bywords for rough-and-ready red slosh.
- 5
A game related to billiards.
- Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty. We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.
sloshnoun詞源 2/slɒʃ/
- 1
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