slush

slush (slus̸h)

noun

partly melted snow or ice
soft mud; mire
refuse fat or grease from cooking, esp. on board ship
any of several greasy compounds used as lubricants or rust preventives for machinery
☆ overly sentimental talk or writing; drivel
☆ a confection consisting of shaved or crushed ice with a syrup, usually fruit-flavored, poured over it
Informal slush pile

Etymology: prob. < Scand, as in Dan sluske, ult. < IE base *(s)leu- > sleet

transitive verb

intransitive verb

to walk or move through slushy snow, ice, or mud

slush′i·ness noun slush′y adjective slush′i·er, slush′i·est

melting snow, mire, refuse; see mud.

Converse of object

make: Shake the whole thing around, and the salt will melt some of the ice, making the whole ice slush very cold.
have: It only lasted a day tho and then we had slush for about a week.

Preposition: in

afternoon: Hard in the morning, slush in late afternoon and so, so sweet in the middle.

Adjective modifier

frozen: Ice cracked at the lake's edges at first, revealing a frozen slush beneath.
deep: In some places the tracks were coated in deep slush that was partially frozen making for some interesting driving conditions!
brown: I know that it'll be bloody slippery underfoot and it'll soon turn into nasty brown slush.

Modifies a noun

pile: No major publisher now takes on authors from their slush pile; authors have to use agents.
fund: Make the vehicles a slush fund a computer allowing human body quot.
puppy: However, one source of pleasure always denied them both was Mr Frosty, maker of slush puppies.
money: The slush money then weed them the strategic development.
pump: Driving slush pumps was not the only oilfield pumping application for which Paxman engines were supplied.
ice: Following evisceration they are cooled in either slush ice or a spin chiller.

Noun used with modifier

ice: Shake the whole thing around, and the salt will melt some of the ice, making the whole ice slush very cold.

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