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Plash

//plæʃ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small pool of standing water; a puddle. UK, dialectal

    "Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh."

  2. 2
    The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
  3. 3
    the sound like water splashing wordnet
  4. 4
    A splash, or the sound made by a splash.

    "Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash, and as we listened we watched it in silence."

  5. 5
    A sudden downpour.

    "[...] down burst torrents of thick rain and muddied us to the skin. The valley began to run in plashes of water, and Dakhil-Allah urged us across it quickly. [...]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To splash. intransitive

    "plashing among bedded pebbles"

  2. 2
    To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of. transitive

    "to plash a hedge"

  3. 3
    dash a liquid upon or against wordnet
  4. 4
    To cause a splash. transitive
  5. 5
    To bend down a bough (in order to pick fruit from it). transitive

    "1679, John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, Second Part: Some of the trees hung over the wall, and my brother did plash and eat."

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  1. 6
    interlace the shoots of wordnet
  2. 7
    To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter. transitive

    "to plash a wall in imitation of granite"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English plasch, plasche, from Old English plæsċ (“pool, puddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *plask, probably ultimately imitative. Cognate with Dutch plas (“pool, watering hole”). Related also to West Frisian plaskje (“to splash, splatter”), Dutch plassen (“to splash, splatter”), German platschen (“to splash”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English plasch, plasche, from Old English plæsċ (“pool, puddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *plask, probably ultimately imitative. Cognate with Dutch plas (“pool, watering hole”). Related also to West Frisian plaskje (“to splash, splatter”), Dutch plassen (“to splash, splatter”), German platschen (“to splash”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English *plasshen, *plaisshen, *plesshen, from Old French plaissier, plessier (“to bend”), from Latin plectere (“to plait, weave”). For the noun, compare Middle English plaisshes (“hedges forming an enclosure, palisade of hedges or wattles”). Compare also pleach.

Etymology 4

From Middle English *plasshen, *plaisshen, *plesshen, from Old French plaissier, plessier (“to bend”), from Latin plectere (“to plait, weave”). For the noun, compare Middle English plaisshes (“hedges forming an enclosure, palisade of hedges or wattles”). Compare also pleach.

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