Sploshとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /splɑʃ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /splɒʃ/
• 韻: -ɒʃ

動詞

splosh (third-person singular simple present sploshes, present participle sploshing, simple past and past participle sploshed)

1. To splash with a heavy splashing sound.

   splosh into the sea

   • 2009, John Ridley, A Conversation with the Mann:

     Sometimes someone would take a wrench to a fire hydrant, jam a crate up to its nozzle, turning the whole of it into a fountain for us kids to splosh around and play in.

2. To traverse mushy or marshy wetlands.
3. To spill or spill over.

関連する語

• slosh
• splash
• splish
• sploosh

名詞

splosh (countable and uncountable, plural sploshes)

1. (countable) A heavy splashing sound.
2. (countable, uncountable) A spilt or dropped liquid or semi-liquid substance.
   • 1871 September 16, “Field Intelligence”, in OHIO FARMER, volume XX, number 37, Cleveland, page 581:

     A medium-sized paper filled with sensible articles to the point, is better than one full of splosh.

   • 1962, Anthony Burgess, edited by Mark Rawlison, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2011, →ISBN, page 43:

     […] a milk-jug and a milk-bottle going all drunk then scattering white splosh in all directions

   • 2008, Jill Mansell, The One You Really Want, Hachette U.K., →ISBN:

     Leaning forward, Rose saw the generous white splosh of bird poo decorating the tip of the woman’s expensive looking brown suede shoe.

3. (uncountable, UK, slang) Tea (the drink).

   Give us a cup of splosh, love.