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Synonyms for slush

Grammar : Noun
Spell : sluhsh
Phonetic Transcription : slʌʃ

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Définition of slush

Origin :
  • 1640s, "melting snow, snow and water," perhaps from a Scandinavian source (cf. Norwegian and Swedish slask "slushy ground;" obsolete Danish slus "sleet"), all probably imitative of the sound of sloshing. Slush fund is first attested 1839, from an earlier sense of slush "refuse fat" (1756); the money from the sale of a ship's slush was distributed among the officers, which was the original sense of the phrase. The extended meaning "money collected for bribes and to buy influence" is first recorded 1874, no doubt with suggestions of "greasing" palms.
  • noun icy mess
Example sentences :
  • The snow was now fast melting, and the ice-fields were covered with slush.
  • Extract from : « The Field of Ice » by Jules Verne
  • He makes proclamations that Orham is nothin' but sand, slush, and soft drinks.
  • Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • "My wife, if she wishes, can turn Shelley into slush," he answered bitterly.
  • Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
  • The snow became a sea of slush, and water covered the ice of lakes and river.
  • Extract from : « The Gaunt Gray Wolf » by Dillon Wallace
  • "It's the last time you get any of that slush into me, Babbitt," says he.
  • Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford
  • Then there was silence, but for the "gluck" with which we lifted our feet from the slush.
  • Extract from : « Auld Licht Idylls » by J. M. Barrie
  • Alf Burnett, the humorist, compared Brownsville to slush ice.
  • Extract from : « Watch Yourself Go By » by Al. G. Field
  • It was a rainy evening, and everything was slush and fog and gloom.
  • Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • You're right in all the slush—mother won't like it, I tell you!
  • Extract from : « Five Little Peppers And How They Grew » by Margaret Sidney
  • The last bucketful of slush and mud came at last for Jason Squiff.
  • Extract from : « Rootabaga Stories » by Carl Sandburg

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