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
It was now near eight o'clock; and so acute had her hearing become by intense anxiety that she could detect the sounds of a footfall coming along the plashy road.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
SLUSCH, SLUSH, s. soft plashy ground; snow in a state of thawing.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander
The turf was damp and plashy, and in some places partook so much of the character of a swamp, that the horsemen were obliged to alter their course.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison
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