Plash

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æʃ

Unknown from Middle English plashe ("puddle"), from Old English plæsc. Compare the German platschen.

Full definition of plash

Noun

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.
• Isaac BarrowThese shallow plashes.
2. A splash, or the sound made by a splash.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To splash.
• Keatsplashing among bedded pebbles
• LongfellowFar below him plashed the waters.
• Bronte Wuthering|IX... heedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her ...
2. (transitive) To cause a splash.
3. (transitive) To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.to plash a wall in imitation of granite

Related terms

• plashy

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

Noun

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

Verb

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

Anagrams

• phals