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plash

Pronunciation: /plæʃ/

The English word “plash” has 18 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.
  2. A sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something; also, an act causing this sound; a splash.
  3. A heavy fall of rain; a downpour.
  4. A splash of light on a surface.
  5. A plant stem which has been partly cut, bent down, and intertwined with other stems to make or repair a hedge; also, a bush, hedge, etc., which has been pleached in this manner; a pleach.

verb

  1. To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
  2. To splash or sprinkle (a surface, such as a wall) with a liquid colouring matter.
  3. To agitate or plunge into (water or some other liquid), causing it to splash.
  4. To hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; also, to move in water with a splashing sound; to splash.
  5. Of water or some other liquid: to hit something, or to move about, with a splashing sound; to splash.
  6. To hit someone or something with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound.
  7. Synonym of pleach (“to make or repair (a hedge) by partly cutting plant stems, bending them down, and intertwining them with other stems”).
  8. To bend down and intertwine (branches or stems of plants, etc.) to make or repair a hedge.
  9. To bend down (a bush, tree, or other plant).
  10. To intertwine (branches or stems of plants) on a trellis; to trellis; also, to train (a tree or other plant) to grow against a wall; to espalier.
  11. To intertwine (branches, flowers, etc.) together; to interweave.
  12. To intertwine branches or stems of plants of (a wood) to block a passage for defensive purposes.

interjection

  1. Used to represent the sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something.

Etymology

From Middle English plasch, plasche, plash, plashe (“pool of standing water, marshy place; torrent of water (?)”), from Late Old English plæsċ, plesċ (“pool; puddle”), probably from Proto-West Germanic *plask (“pool”); further etymology unknown, probably ultimately onomatopoeic, referring to the sound of splashing. cognates * German platschen (“to splash”) * Middle Dutch plasch, plas (“pool”)…

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