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Synonyms for slushy


Grammar : Adj
Spell : sluhsh-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈslʌʃ i

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Définition of slushy

Origin :
  • 1791, "covered with slush," from slush + -y (2). As slang for "ship's cook," 1859, from slush (n.) "refuse from a cook's galley" (1756). Related: Slushiness.
  • adj sentimental
  • adj slimy
Example sentences :
  • They was in a clove hitch again and whisperin' soft and slushy.
  • Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • "And very unsuitable for a walk on a cold, slushy winter day," he added.
  • Extract from : « Rosemary » by Josephine Lawrence
  • I'd hate to have her think I was gettin' slushy or sentimental.
  • Extract from : « Torchy As A Pa » by Sewell Ford
  • Outside it's wet and slushy—just the kind of weather that breeds disease.
  • Extract from : « A Family of Noblemen » by Mikhal Saltykov
  • Then they trooped aft, clawing their way along the slushy decks.
  • Extract from : « The Viking Blood » by Frederick William Wallace
  • The decks are wet, the housing dripping, the snow adhesive and slushy.
  • Extract from : « Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack » by Elisha Kent Kane
  • "Tono-Bungay" had for a companion a slushy novel by Garvice—and on them all was dust.
  • Extract from : « The Sins of the Children » by Cosmo Hamilton
  • Nothing, it may be added, is so annoying in this book as its slushy dilettantism.
  • Extract from : « Ephemera Critica » by John Churton Collins
  • The prince flushed a darker red and hushed the slushy accompaniment.
  • Extract from : « Happy Pollyooly » by Edgar Jepson
  • In that slushy book I read the girl ought to have been shook.
  • Extract from : « How It Happened » by Kate Langley Bosher
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