🌨️ Wet melting snow 🥾 To walk in wet ground 💦 To splash liquid

slush

26 1.4

Soft wet snow that has partly melted on roads and paths

noun
/slʌʃ/

: nieve semiderretida

I sat back in the yellow cab as it bounced and plowed through the slush-filled New York streets.
a slush fund

Driving through a country landscape like that, not a city where everything turns to slush, right?

Examples

Outside my window, a mixture of rain and snow was settling into slush on Berkeley Street.

Fiction book (2000)
In the morning, the London traffic would turn the snow to brown slush, but for now it was pristine.

Fiction book (1998)
The snow had turned to ice and slush and tore her jeans.

Fiction book (1998)
It's all hopeless, misery of rain and slush. I wish George were here; I wish spring would come.

Fiction book (1991)
A carriage went past in the street, kicking sheets of slush up from the wheels.

Fiction book (1994)
Cars splashed mud and slush on him, even on the sunniest of afternoons.

Fiction book (1990)
Soon the cars returned, spit exhaust, churned up mud and slush, and dirtied the snow with a dark crust.

Fiction book (1997)
Muddy piles of frozen slush that might sully the sidewalks of other urban centers had been removed.

Fiction book (1998)
With an ugly crunch, he smacks into the slush-covered pavement and bounces.

Fiction book (1992)
After the snowstorm, the streets were filled with slush, making it difficult to walk.

Antonyms

solid ground

13 1.8

Firm land you can stand on instead of water

dry snow

1 2.8

Snow that has little or no water and does not stick together

Compounds

slush fund

NSFW

6 7.5

Hidden money kept to pay bribes or buy favors

How Wet

slush

26 1.4

dry snow

1 2.8

Surface Forms

slush singular

slushes plural

Etymology

Slush comes from sound-making words like splash and slosh, so it brings to mind wet, messy water. That's why slush now means 'partially melted snow' that is soft, wet, and messy.