Sploshing

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Moving through or spattering liquid in a noisy, messy way, as a person or thing does when wading through puddles
2. Making a wet, slapping splash while wading or pouring liquid carelessly over a surface
3. Spattering or spreading liquid about noisily, as when someone wades through mud or pours water clumsily

Etymology: "Sploshing" is the present participle or gerund of "splosh", a verb meaning to splash or spatter with liquid, usually noisily and messily. The verb itself is an older English word, built on the same sound-symbolic pattern as "splash", "slosh" and "squelch", where a cluster of sounds suggests a wet impact. The sense that makes "sploshing" distinctive is much newer and far more specialised. It refers to a wet and messy fetish, in which the pleasure lies in liquid, mud or similar substances being splashed over or squeezed around a person. That meaning was coined or popularised by the British magazine "Splosh!", which appeared in 1989 and gave the fetish a name that readers could adopt. The magazine's title is itself a playful use of the old verb, so the word moved from a noise-like description of a splash to a label for a specific erotic taste in roughly the space of a few decades.

Synonyms: splash, slosh, splatter, slop