a. [Imitative.] Sloppy.
1842. Brooklyn Eagle, 24 Oct., 2/2. The ’coons attributed it to the ‘sploshy weather,’ in which French boots dare not venture out!
1881. Constance Fenimore Woolson, in Harper’s Mag., Aug., 391/2. On horseback Rachel looks—excuse the word, but it expresses it—sploshy.
1905. Sat. Rev., 29 July, 133/1. Mr. Redmond, in rather a sploshy way, threatened dire obstruction.
