Slooshes

Part of speech: verb, noun

Definitions

1. To make or cause a sound as of liquid gently spilling or splashing against a surface; to move through or in a liquid with a soft splashing noise; the noise produced by such wet, slushing movements
2. To produce a wet, swishing sound associated with the movement of liquid materials; to move in a manner causing water or a similar fluid to splash lightly; the characteristic soft, gurgling noise of such actions
3. The act of creating a gentle, flowing, splashy noise by disturbing liquid; to proceed with a sloshing or squishing motion through water or fluid substances; a sound resembling the wet pattering or churning of liquid substances

Etymology: "Slooshes" is the third-person singular present form of "sloosh," so it is the form used with a singular subject such as "he slooshes" or "the boat slooshes," and it shares its origin with the base verb. "Sloosh" is imitative, meaning it was formed to echo the sound it describes: the wet, sucking swish of something moving through liquid. Many English words built this way, such as "splash," "slosh," and "swish," follow the same pattern of sound standing in for action.

Synonyms: splashes, sloshes, sloshes around, spills, sloshes about