plashy

How to use plashy in a sentence

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

  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 | David Livingstone

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

  The Life of Sir Richard Burton | Thomas Wright

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

  Thomas Hardy's Dorset | Robert Thurston Hopkins

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

  Poachers and Poaching | John Watson

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

  Poachers and Poaching | John Watson