slosh

Wade through puddles

Slosh describes liquid moving noisily in a container or underfoot.

Water sloshes in a bucket when you walk; boots slosh through puddles.

The word captures both the motion and the sound—a wet, splashing movement: Coffee sloshed over the rim of the mug.

In British slang, sloshed means drunk.

spill

overflow

Exceed capacity and spill

slop · drench · soak · puddle · mess · spillage · leak · drip · saturate · wet

gait

wade

Walk through impeding substance

  • trudgeWalk slowly, heavily
  • plodMove slowly, heavily
  • slogLaborious persistent effort

squelch · splatter · stomp · tramp · trek · slop · paddle · ford · wallow · flounder

movement

swirl

Rotating, curving movement

  • surgeSudden powerful increase
  • spillAccidental liquid release
  • overflowExceed capacity and spill

slop · wash · churn · heave · rock · pitch · roll · shift · displace · wave

sound

gurgle

Bubbling liquid sound

squelch · lap · plop · bubble · trickle · splatter · whoosh · slurp · gush · drip

mud

trudge

Walk slowly, heavily

  • squelchForcibly silence or suppress
  • muckFilthy wet dirt
  • mireBoggy, waterlogged terrain

bog · sludge · ooze · quagmire · swamp · morass · puddle · marsh · splatter · spray

inebriation

stagger

Walk unsteadily, sway

  • swayRock back and forth
  • wobbleUnsteady side-to-side motion
  • stumbleLose footing momentarily

lurch · tipsy · drunk · plastered · hammered · soused · blotto · boozy · wasted · intoxicated

Categories
Opposites
liquid movement

sloshstill

Unmoving, or continuing

calm · settled · placid · motionless · undisturbed

stillness vs. agitation

sloshsettle

Reach final terms

rest · sit still · still · stay put · stabilize

pour control

sloshpour

Send liquid streaming out

decant · stream · trickle · flow · drip

Phrases
Family

sloshed, sloppiness, sloshing, sloshes, sloshy, sloshings

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G