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
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
The sun was hidden behind banks of black clouds, the streets were plashy and muddy, the fierce showers smote the windows like hail, and the view outside was narrowed to a procession of dripping umbrellas.
From A Singer from the Sea by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
And so the two in high glee started behind old Dobbin, and jogged along the deep-rutted plashy roads, which had not been mended after their winter's wear, toward the dwelling of the wizard.
From Tom Brown at Rugby by Thomas Hughes
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