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

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Example Sentences

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plashy

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

She, in a walk, coming to a "plashy place," hesitated to proceed, when he "cast and spread his new plush cloak on the ground" for her to tread on.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

Also applied to anything like plashy ground, but most commonly to snow in a thaw.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

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 Horace Waller

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