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

Example Sentences

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink 27On the chafed ocean-side?

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

Most unwisely we had neglected to take a meal before starting, not expecting the district to be so plashy and unwholesome as it proved to be. 

From Byeways in Palestine by Finn, James