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slush

 (slŭsh)
n.
1. Partially melted snow or ice.
2. Soft mud; slop; mire.
3. Nautical Grease or fat discarded from a ship's galley.
4. A greasy compound used as a lubricant for machinery.
5. Maudlin speech or writing; sentimental drivel.
6. A drink made of flavored syrup poured over crushed ice.
7. Informal Unsolicited manuscripts submitted to a publisher.
v. slushed, slush·ing, slush·es
v.tr.
1. To daub (machinery) with slush.
2. To fill (joints in masonry) with mortar.
3. Nautical To wash down (a deck) by splashing with water.
4. To splash or soak with slush or mud.
v.intr.
1. To walk or proceed through slush.
2. To make a splashing or slushy sound.

[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian slask, sloppy weather.]

slush′y adj.
slush′i·ly adv.
slush′i·ness n.
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slushy

(ˈslʌʃɪ)
adj, slushier or slushiest
of, resembling, or consisting of slush
n, pl slushies
(Cookery) an unskilled kitchen assistant
ˈslushiness n
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.slushy - being or resembling melting snow; "slushy snow"; "deep slushy mud"
unfrozen - not frozen; "unfrozen ground"
2.slushy - effusively or insincerely emotionalslushy - effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
emotional - of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional"
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slushy

adjective
1. Of, relating to, or covered with slime:
2. Affectedly or extravagantly emotional:
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Translations
ذو عواطِف زائِفَه
rozčvachtaný
hólétõl latyakos
krapakenndur; væminn
roztopený
sulu karlı

slushy

[slʌʃɪ] ADJ (slushier (compar) (slushiest (superl)))
1. [snow] → medio derretido
2. [poetry etc] → sentimentaloide, sensiblero
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

slushy

[ˈslʌʃi] adj
[snow] → fondu(e)
[street] → couvert(e) de neige fondue
(British) (= sentimental) → à l'eau de rose
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

slushy

adj (+er) snowmatschig; mud, path alsomorastig; (inf: = sentimental) → kitschig
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

slushy

[ˈslʌʃɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (snow) → sciolto/a, fangoso/a (fam) (Brit) (poetry) → sdolcinato/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

slush

(slaʃ) noun
1. melting snow. The streets are covered with slush.
2. (something said or written showing) weak sentimentality. I think most romantic novels are just slush!
ˈslushy adjective
ˈslushiness noun
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
References in classic literature ?
Only I don't know if they'll manage to get through; it's so slushy."
"On the 17th of February, 1835, he sold the old carriage and bought a cheap second-hand buggy--said a buggy was just the trick to skim along mushy, slushy early spring roads with, and he had always wanted to try a buggy on those mountain roads, anyway.
But in the morning when, dressed in my cork-jacket, I traversed the slushy mass at a temperature of six or seven degrees below zero, I remarked that the side walls were gradually closing in.
'Now,' said Mr Inspector, again to Riderhood, when they were all on the slushy stones; 'you have had more practice in this than I have had, and ought to be a better workman at it.
He spoke in a slushy voice, as if much mud had washed into his throat.
Making, with his leaky shoes, a crooked line of slushy footprints in the mire; and blowing on his chilly hands and rubbing them against each other, poorly defended from the searching cold by threadbare mufflers of grey worsted, with a private apartment only for the thumb, and a common room or tap for the rest of the fingers; Toby, with his knees bent and his cane beneath his arm, still trotted.
In doing which she lost her temper, or mislaid it for an instant; for, the water being uncomfortably cold, and in that slippy, slushy, sleety sort of state wherein it seems to penetrate through every kind of substance, patten rings included-- had laid hold of Mrs.
To sweep a slushy crossing for eight hours, on a day when the east wind is blowing is a disgusting occupation.
Summary: Mangaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 24 (ANI): Shri JnanaShakti Subramanya Swamy temple organised Kesard Onji-rural sports festival in slushy paddy fields at Bakimara fields in Mangaluru on Monday.
A new feature this year was the ice cream and slushy stall, along with all the usual favourites including the hens from Egglicous Eggs.
She specified that she wanted a regular, "not frozen" Daiquiri, yet the waiter brought her a red slushy drink.