plash

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æʃ

Etymology 1

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

Noun

plash (plural plashes)

1. (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.

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   • Isaac Barrow

     These shallow plashes.

2. A splash, or the sound made by a splash.

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To splash.
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Chapter IX

     ... heedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her, she remained ...

2. (transitive) To cause a splash.
3. (transitive) To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.

   to plash a wall in imitation of granite

Translations

to splash

• Czech: šplouchat (cs)

• German: platschen (de)

Related terms

• plashy

Etymology 2

Old French plaissier, plessier (“to bend”). Compare pleach.

Noun

plash (plural plashes)

1. The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
   • to plash a hedge

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Anagrams

• phals