plash

plash (pl

sh)

1. A light splash.

2. The sound of a light splash.

v. plashed, plash·ing, plash·es

v.tr.

To spatter (liquid) about; splash.

v.intr.

To cause a light splash.

[Possibly from Middle English plashe, pool of water, from Old English plæsc.]

plash¹

vb & n

a less common word for splash

[Old English plæsc, probably imitative; compare Dutch plas]

plash²

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Horticulture) another word for pleach

[from Old French plassier, from plais hedge, woven fence, from Latin plectere to plait; compare pleach]

Plash a heavy fall of rain or similar outpouring.

Examples: plash of rain, 1887; of sunlight, 1848; of water, 1851; of waterfowl, 1882.

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Noun	1.	plash - the sound like water splashing splash noise - sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels" splat - a single splash; "he heard a splat as it hit the floor"
Verb	1.	plash - interlace the shoots of; "pleach a hedge" pleach interlace, intertwine, lace, twine, enlace, entwine - spin,wind, or twist together; "intertwine the ribbons"; "Twine the threads into a rope"; "intertwined hearts"
	2.	plash - dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water" spatter, splatter, swash, splash, splosh puddle - make a puddle by splashing water slosh around, slush around, slush, slosh - spill or splash copiously or clumsily; "slosh paint all over the walls" disperse, sprinkle, dot, scatter, dust - distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"

Translations

plash (liter)

n (of water, rain) → Plätschern nt; (of oars) → Platschen nt

vi (water, rain) → plätschern; (oars) → platschen

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Tahiti is a lofty green island, with deep folds of a darker green, in which you divine silent valleys; there is mystery in their sombre depths, down which murmur and plash cool streams, and you feel that in those umbrageous places life from immemorial times has been led according to immemorial ways.

Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

And, for Jerry, most delightful of all, there was the gurgle and plash of a brooklet that pursued its invisible way over mossy stones under a garmenture of tender and delicate ferns.

Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context

From the vast, invisible ocean of moonlight overhead fell, here and there, a slender, broken stream that seemed to plash against the intercepting branches and trickle to earth, forming small white pools among the clumps of laurel.

Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context

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