plashy
English
Etymology
plash + -y
Adjective
plashy (comparative more plashy, superlative most plashy)
- Watery, wet, waterlogged.
- Synonyms: drenched, saturated, sodden; see also Thesaurus:wet
- 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], OCLC 228714942, page 9:
- By and by after his iumping vppon them, the Saxons for that Garianonum, or Yarmoth that had giuen vp the ghoſt, in thoſe ſlymie plaſhie fieldes of Gorlſtone trowled vp a ſecond Yarmouth, abutting on the Weſt ſide of the ſhore of this great Yarmouth, […]
- 1815 [1802], William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence:
- The Hare is running races in her mirth; / And with her feet she from the plashy earth / Raises a mist; which, glittering in the sun, / Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
- Marked by flecks of colour, as if plashed with paint.
- Synonyms: speckled; see also Thesaurus:marked
See also
- splashy