plash

¹

[ plash ]

noun

1. a gentle splash.
2. a pool or puddle.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to splash gently.

plash

²

[ plash ]

verb (used with object)

1. pleach.

plash

¹

/ plæʃ /

verb

1. another word for pleach

plash

²

/ plæʃ /

verb

1. a less common word for splash

Other Words From

• plashing·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of plash¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English plasch “pool, puddle,” Old English plæsc; cognate with Dutch, Low German plas, probably of imitative origin

Origin of plash²

1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle French plaissier, derivative of plais hedge < Vulgar Latin *plaxum < ?

Word History and Origins

Origin of plash¹

C15: from Old French plassier, from plais hedge, woven fence, from Latin plectere to plait; compare pleach

Origin of plash²

Old English plæsc, probably imitative; compare Dutch plas

Example Sentences

DJ Fleg will split duties with Poland’s DJ Plash for the women’s competition Friday and the men’s event Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times

Using hooked poles and pickaxes, ice harvesters broke the frozen water into convenient pieces, and "with icicles dangling from the fringe of their ragged trousers, turned up higher than their knees, they plash and dabble in the deadly cold water to bring the ice ashore", wrote Greenwood in the 1870s.

From BBC

The murmur and footfalls of patrons mingled with the plash of the water, both sounds echoing off the domed and coffered ceiling and creating a pleasant hum of white noise.

From Washington Post

He dodged and ducked behind Sarai, into whom Ruby caromed in a plash of sodden, icy silk.

From Literature

Best of all may be Andrew O’Hagan’s contribution: “clart” and “clarty,” for “mud” and “muddy”—which he follows up with a rush of other, lost mud-words: slub, plash, blash, and stabble, before including the Suffolk word “durg,” for mud that has manure mixed into it, which is one of those words it’s hard to know how the rest of us have managed without.

From The New Yorker

Related Words

• dash
• douse
• drench
• drown
• paddle
• slop
• slosh
• soak
• spatter
• spray
• sprinkle
• squirt
• strew
• wade
• wet