Slush

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  • noun. Partially melted snow or ice.
  • noun. Soft mud; slop; mire.
  • noun. Grease or fat discarded from a ship's galley.
  • noun. A greasy compound used as a lubricant for machinery.
  • noun. Maudlin speech or writing; sentimental drivel.
  • noun. A drink made of flavored syrup poured over crushed ice.
  • noun. Unsolicited manuscripts submitted to a publisher.
  • intransitive verb. To daub (machinery) with slush.
  • intransitive verb. To fill (joints in masonry) with mortar.
  • intransitive verb. To wash down (a deck) by splashing with water.
  • intransitive verb. To splash or soak with slush or mud.
  • intransitive verb. To walk or proceed through slush.
  • intransitive verb. To make a splashing or slushy sound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To apply slush to; grease, lubricate, or polish with slush: as, to slush the masts.
  • To wash roughly: as, to slush a floor with water
  • To cover with a mixture of white lead and lime, as the bright parts of machinery.
  • To fill, as the joints and spaces between the bricks or stones of a wall, with mortar or cement: usually with up: as, to slush up a wall.
  • To slop; spill.
  • noun. Sludge, or watery mire; soft mud.
  • noun. Melting snow; snow and water mixed.
  • noun. A mixture of grease and other materials used as a lubricator.
  • noun. The refuse of the cook's galley on board ship, especially grease
  • noun. A mixture of white lead and lime with which the bright parts of machinery are covered to prevent their rusting.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To smear with slush or grease.
  • transitive verb. To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
  • noun. Soft mud.
  • noun. A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.
  • noun. A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
  • noun. The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Half-melted snow or ice
  • noun. Liquid mud or mire
  • noun. flavored shaved ice served as a drink
  • verb. To smear with slushy liquid or grease.
  • verb. To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.
  • verb. To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. spill or splash copiously or clumsily
  • noun. partially melted snow
  • verb. make a splashing sound
  • Word Usage
    "And then I was thinking to myself that it was a good job that we had the stern, manly feeling to comfort us of our hard work being our duty, when I heard the _slush, slush, slush, slush_, sound of feet coming along the trenches, and then my sergeant said:"
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    mud  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    go  h2o  plash  sound  spatter  
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cush  Rush  blush  brush  crush  
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    Rainwater  bog  clod  dampness  drizzle  
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