a. [f. SWASH sb.1 or v. + -Y.] Sloppy, watery. Also fig. ‘watery,’ ‘washy.’
1796. J. Owen, Trav. Europe, I. 70. Some part of the track … was piled into heaps of swashy clay.
1803. J. Bunting, Lett., 23 Sept., in Life (1859), I. x. 182. When I hear such preaching as Mr Jay’s, I … wonder that the people should ever like to listen to my poor swashy sermons.
1876. Whitby Gloss., Swashy, wet ground. ‘Swashy stuff,’ poor beverage.
1890. Temple Bar, Sept., 127. The pavement was swashy with three inches of half-melted snow.
