plashy

[ plash-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, plash·i·er, plash·i·est.

ˈplashy

/ ˈplæʃɪ /

Origin of plashy¹

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

Roads all plashy or running with water, oozes full, and rivulets overflowing; rocks of dolomite jutting out here and there.

They found it a plashy, swampy place, prolific in mangroves and true ferns, with here and there a cultivated patch.

It was one of those peculiarly "plashy" jobs in which any child would delight.

Plashy meadows and marshes are also favourite feeding grounds; and here the lapwing makes "game" for an army of gunners.

The bird feeds on plashy meadows, wet moors, by tarns and stream sides, and on mosses which margin the coast.

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