different between sqush vs slush

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skw??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

sqush (third-person singular simple present squshes, present participle squshing, simple past and past participle squshed)

1. (intransitive, US, rare) To squash or squelch.
   • 1909, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls

     […] it was little better than a swamp, and at every step their shoes went sqush […]

   • 1939, Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun (page 12)

     His feet squshed in the water as he went […] He tip-toed upstairs his wet shoes still squshing a little.

   • 1855, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” in Leaves of Grass, page 36:

     […] At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown sqush....sucking the juice through a straw,

English

Etymology

Most likely imitative; related to slosh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

slush (usually uncountable, plural slushes)

1. Half-melted snow or ice.

   As the skiing season drew to an end, there was nothing but slush left on the piste.

2. Liquid mud or mire.
3. Flavored shaved ice served as a drink.
4. A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
5. The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
6. (engineering) A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
7. (publishing) Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.

Synonyms

• (snow): slush ice
• (flavored shaved ice served as a drink): slushy, slushie, slurpee, Slurpee, slush puppy, Slush Puppie

Derived terms

• slushy
• slush fund
• slush puppy (non-alcoholic)
• Slush Puppy (alcoholic drink)
• slushbreaker

Translations

Verb

slush (third-person singular simple present slushes, present participle slushing, simple past and past participle slushed)

1. To smear with slushy liquid or grease.
2. To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.
3. To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.

Derived terms

• slusher
• slush up

Anagrams

• shuls

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?slus/, [?s?lus?]
• IPA^(key): /?slu?/, [?s?lu?]

Noun

slush

1. slush (icy drink)

Declension

Synonyms

• jäähilejuoma