plashy
Americanadjective
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wet or marshy
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splashing or splashy
Etymology
Origin of plashy
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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
Into this plashy soil the gun had plunged and the carriage lay some yards away up-ended on a broken wheel, but otherwise uninjured.
From Hetty Wesley by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Roads all plashy or running with water, oozes full, and rivulets overflowing; rocks of dolomite jutting out here and there.
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Horace Waller
A walk of a few minutes through the plashy streets brought us to a wide gateway, like the entrance to a brassfounder's yard.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 by Robert Chambers
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