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plash

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5 lettersPronunciation /plæʃ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ahlpsStarts with PEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. dash a liquid upon or against

Word origin

From Middle English plasch, plasche, plash, plashe (“pool of standing water, marshy place; torrent of water (?)”), from Late Old English plæsċ, plesċ (“pool; puddle”), probably from Proto-West Germanic *plask (“pool”); further etymology unknown, probably ultimately onomatopoeic, referring to the sound of splashing.

Used in a sentence

  • Out of the vvound the redblood flovved freſh, / That vnderneath his feet ſoone made a purple pleſh.
  • Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash?
  • […] Arthur with a hundred spears / Rode far, till o'er the illimitable reed, / And many a glancing plash and sallowy isle, / The wide-wing'd sunset of the misty marsh / Glared on a huge machicolated tower […]

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