plashy
Americanadjective
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wet or marshy
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splashing or splashy
Etymology
Origin of plashy
Example Sentences
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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
And soon the rolling mist, that 'gan arise From plashy mead and undiscover'd stream, Earth's morning incense to the early skies, Crept o'er the failing landscape of my dream.
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
Where is Onetho? what delays His coming? why should he remain Among the plashy woodland ways, Swoln brooks and boughs that drip with rain?
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard
Most of the course of the river in this vicinity is through marshy and meadowy ground, as yet scarcely redeemed from the spring-time overflow, and which at all seasons is plashy and unfit for walking.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various
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