plashy

American  

[plash-ee] / ˈplæʃ i /

adjective

plashier, plashiest

1. marshy; wet.

2. splashing.

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plashy British  

/ ˈplæʃɪ /

adjective

1. wet or marshy

2. splashing or splashy

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Etymology

Origin of plashy

First recorded in 1545–55; plash ¹ + -y ¹

Example Sentences

I would give anything to have written his parody of overstrained journalistic writing: “Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.”

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2018

“Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole — would that be it?”

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2015

He looked up; sudden, plashy drops smote his face.

From Cudjo's Cave by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)

They think that illness had been waiting for some further slight provocation, and that the previous days' tramp, which was almost entirely through plashy Bougas or swamps, turned the scale against them.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by Waller, Horace

A narrow tract descends about sixty feet down the cliff, and continues across a plashy meadow, through a copse, encumbered with masses of limestone.

From Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe by Bingley, William