Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a drink, alcoholic or otherwise; thus sloshery n., drinking.

1857		‘Leary Man’ in ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue (1857) 41: Cut teetotal sloshery, / And get drunk when you can.
1864		J.W. Haley Rebel Yell and The Yankee Hurrah (1985) 226: Having put ourselves outside a couple of hardtack and a dipper of slosh.
1888		Cornhill Mag. Oct. n.p.: Bar-meat and corn-cake washed down with a generous slosh of whiskey [F&H].
1892		‘’Arry in ’Arrygate’ (Second Letter) in Punch 15 Oct. 169/1: I’m in for a fortnit’ more sulphur and slosh.
1923		P. MacGill Moleskin Joe 212: I’ll make ye a slosh o’ tea.

2. (US) a form of hash comprising beef and cornbread, properly known as cush.

1943

(con. 1861-5) B.I. Wiley Life of Johnny Reb 104: The most frequently mentioned [dish] was a concoction known as cush - dubbed ‘slosh’ by one of its less admiring partakers.

3. mawkish emotionalism; thus slosh-bucket n., a highly sentimental person.

1891		A. Day Mysterious Beggar 266: I harpooned a regular slosh-bucket [...] One of those weepin’ benevolents!
1917		E. Pound letter Aug. in Paige (1971) 114: And The Dial, oh gosh, slosh, tosh, the dial, d,i,a,l, dial.
1947		V.S. Pritchett Men of the World in Lehmann Penguin New Writing No. 30 (1947) 141: The modern world of film slosh and toughness.

4. nonsense.

1904		Sun. Times (Perth) 3 Jan. 4/4: A lot of journalistic slosh [...] about the splendid appointments of the course.
1911		Truth (Sydney) 19 Feb. 3/7: That there holey slosh connudle / It caught on with that ole crew.

5. a coffee stall.

1989

J. Morton Lowspeak 130: Slosh – a coffee stall.

6. (US CAmpus) a drunkard.

2014

C. Eble (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2014 Fall .