Other forms: sloshing, sloshed
To slosh is to move about noisily inside a container, as liquid does. Slosh about, water sloshing in the tank, slosh it over the side.
It also means to pour carelessly, as in slosh some more in. Half-full tanks slosh and full ones do not, which is why tankers have baffles inside to stop the load shifting on a bend.
1verbsloshTo move about noisily inside a container, as liquid does.
“Water sloshed around in the bottom of the boat as we rowed.”
slosh is a moving.
An imitative word, formed on the pattern of splash and slush.
imitative of the sound; compare splash, splosh.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA