asloshとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

a- +‎ slosh

形容詞

aslosh (comparative more aslosh, superlative most aslosh)

1. Sloshing; full of, covered or soaked (with または in a liquid).
   • 1972, John Brandi, in Y Aun Hay Mas, Santa Barbara, CA: Christopher’s Books, p. 66,^[1]

     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, Cherry, Penguin, 2001, Chapter 23, p. 268,^[3]

     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 または in something).
   • 1969, Aloïse Buckley Heath, Will Mrs. Major Go to Hell? New York: National Review, 1990, Chapter 21, p. 198,^[4]

     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, London: Serpent’s Tail, p. 286,^[5]

     […] the whole country aslosh in cash from a buoyant stock market, demand for the really dirt-cheap travel in which we specialized had dropped.

同意語

• awash