slushy

Adjective

Open English WordNet

Adjective (2)

  1. being or resembling melting snow“slushy snow”“deep slushy mud”Opposite frozenSimilar unfrozen
  2. effusively or insincerely emotional“a bathetic novel”“maudlin expressions of sympathy”“mushy effusiveness”“a schmaltzy song”“sentimental soap operas”“slushy poetry”Synonyms: batheticdrippyhokeymaudlinmawkishkitschymushyschmaltzyschmalzysentimentalsappysoppysoupyOpposite unemotionalSimilar emotional
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Slush′y (slŭsh′y̆), adjective

Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy. “A dark, drizzling, slushy day.” Blackw. Mag.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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