rough-and-tumble vs slosh

rough-and-tumble

noun
  • An environment of rough activity 

  • Rough activity; fighting or brawling; a fight. 

  • A person who characteristically engages in such activity 

verb
  • Engage in rough-and-tumble activity 

adj
  • active, vigorous and rough, with the possibility of harm 

  • highly competitive 

slosh

noun
  • A sloshing sound or motion. 

  • Inferior wine or other drink. 

  • A game related to billiards. 

  • A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash. 

  • Slush. 

  • backslash, the character \. 

verb
  • to move noisily through water or other liquid. 

  • To make a sloshing sound. 

  • To punch (someone). 

  • To shift chaotically; to splash noisily. 

  • To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts 

  • To cause to slosh 

How often have the words rough-and-tumble and slosh occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )