U.S. [Imitative.] Slush, mud.
1825. Vermont Gaz., 8 Feb., 3/4. That mixture of rain and snow and ice, which the learned call sposh.
1845. in Bartlett, Dict. Amer. (1848), 325. The streets were one shining level of black sposh.
1845. G. B. Cheever, Wand. Pilgrim, xxiv. 161. Making our way for some time in this penetrating sposh.
1884. J. Burroughs, Birds & Poets, 109. Yellow sposh and mud and water everywhere.
Hence Sposhy a., soft and watery.
1837. Advocate (Wilkesbarre, PA), 20 Dec., 3/4. Rain descended without intermission until Monday noon—making the streets first sposhy, and then muddy.
1884. Sarah O. Jewett, Country Doctor, iii. 22. There ’s a sight o’ difference between good upland fruit and the sposhy apples that grows in wet ground.
