[Imitative of the sound.]
1. intr. To trudge or plod splashily through mud or water.
1859. A. Whitehead, Leg. (1896), 56 (E.D.D.). Away he splodg’d in pensive mood, Towards the temple in the wood.
1899. F. V. Kirby, Sport E. C. Africa, ix. 106. As I had braved the first [muddy channel] and got wet through, I ‘splodged’ through them all in succession.
2. Used adverbially: With a heavy splash.
1898. H. Kirke, 25 Yrs. Brit. Guiana, 180. I had hardly spoken when splodge! splodge! came the rain in my face.
Hence Splodger. (See quot.)
1860. Slang Dict., 224. Splodger, a lout, an awkward countryman.
