What's the difference between slushy and soupy?

Slushy


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And remember, if you buy a beer, drink it fast - it's be a slushy in no time.
  • (2) He is currently employing a slushy mixture of patronage and coercion to build up his network, but these things take time.
  • (3) A plodding storm that dumped heavy snow on the unsuspecting mid-Atlantic region left roads slippery and slushy in the Northeast for Monday's commute while travel disruptions continued rippling across the country days after the same system first began wreaking havoc in the skies.
  • (4) Elizabeth Gilbert’s relationship with Jose Nunes was the basis of her best-known books, from Eat, Pray, Love (made into a predictably slushy Hollywood film ) to Committed, her book about her marriage.
  • (5) One 17-year-old witness for the prosecution said the complainant and their companions took 'slushie' cups of vodka to drink at the party.
  • (6) Slushy, but very thin, and can certainly wear a frock.
  • (7) "Parents should by all means let their young kids have a go at snowboarding, especially if the snow is slushy, but they shouldn't expect to leave the nursery slopes or Riglet parks whereas, with skiing, you can travel as a family more.
  • (8) Freezing is accomplished by rapid propulsion of the grid, with specimens attached, into slushy N2 (-210 degrees C) within the drying chamber; drying is automatic, by either sublimation under vacuum or by solvent substitution using absolute ethanol followed by acetone, which, in turn, is removed with a critical-point dryer.

Soupy


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling soup; souplike.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Oporto authorities pumped poisons into the university grounds where the Interocean II had drilled and left the earth slick and soupy.
  • (2) The clinical findings in 37 sheep and goats with acute ruminal lactic acidosis included a disturbed general condition characterised by anorexia, apathy, teeth grinding and muscle twitching, ruminal stasis, and the excretion of soupy or watery faeces.
  • (3) My favourite is pasta e fagioli, pasta with beans, soupie thing, gorgeous.
  • (4) And by 10am, it was soupy with humidity, too, so I headed for the cool and calm of the Metropolitan Cathedral.
  • (5) The political intrigue and conspiracy that normally hang heavy as the soupy winter smog here were leavened slightly by the unexpected sense of real competition, the growing possibility of democratic choice.
  • (6) He last came to festival with the soupy Biutiful back in 2010 and appears to have all but booked himself into this year's competition.
  • (7) They made weird, soupy music that wore its influences lightly – a spot of Gang of Four here, a dash of the Velvet Underground there, with guitar jangle holding the whole thing together.

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