slurry

noun

thin sloppy mud or cement or, in extended use, any fluid mixture of a pulverized solid with a liquid (usually water), often used as a convenient way of handling solids in bulk

Pronunciation: /ˈslɝi/ / /ˈslɜːɹi/ / /ˈslʌ.ɹi/ / /ˈslɝ.i/ / /ˈslʊ.ɹi/

Etymology: From slur (“run together; articulate poorly”) + -y.

Slurred, tending to slur.
“He spoke with a slurry voice.”
“His voice became progressively slurrier as he drank the three bottles of wine.”

Etymology: Unclear; probably related to Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”); compare slur. From mid-15th c.

Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
“1981, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Animal Nutrition, Feeding Value of Ethanol Production By-products, page 26, While little information is available, it probably is similar to spent brewers yeast slurry.”
“The most important application of fluid flow techniques in the mineral processing industry is the transportation of slurries. Whenever solid materials are in particulate form transportation in the form of a slurry is possible.”
Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
“Slurry tailings ponds are by far the major type of containment facilities for slurry tailings.”
A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.
“In the Netherlands, the most problematic agricultural waste is liquid pig manure or pig slurry.”
A thickener.

Etymology: Unclear; probably related to Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”); compare slur. From mid-15th c.