plash

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[edit] English

Possibly, from Middle English plashe (“puddle”), from Old English plæsc. Compare the German platschen.

plash (plural plashes)

(UK, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
  
  Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh.
A splash, or the sound made by a splash.

plash (third-person singular simple present plashes, present participle plashing, simple past and past participle plashed)

(intransitive) To splash.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights [1]
  
  ... heedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her, she remained ...
(transitive) To cause a splash.

to splash