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

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Example Sentences

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plashy

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

The deep marshy ground, plashy with rivulets and melted snow, he waded through ankle deep, climbing the briery rocks and steep banks without a moment's halt.

From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever

Also applied to anything like plashy ground, but most commonly to snow in a thaw.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

She, in a walk, coming to a "plashy place," hesitated to proceed, when he "cast and spread his new plush cloak on the ground" for her to tread on.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

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