plash
To hit with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing soundTo hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
Meaning
12 senses(also, figuratively, transitive)To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
(also, figuratively, transitive)To splash or sprinkle (a surface, such as a wall) with a liquid colouring matter.
to plash a wall in imitation of granite
(intransitive)To hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; also, to move in water with a splashing sound; to splash.
(also, figuratively, intransitive)Of water or some other liquid: to hit something, or to move about, with a splashing sound; to splash.
(UK, dialectal, transitive)Synonym of pleach (“to make or repair (a hedge) by partly cutting plant stems, bending them down, and intertwining them with other stems”).
(Shetland, archaic, transitive)To agitate or plunge into (water or some other liquid), causing it to splash.
(Shetland, archaic, intransitive)To hit someone or something with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound.
(obsolete, transitive)To bend down and intertwine (branches or stems of plants, etc.) to make or repair a hedge.
To bend down and intertwine (branches or stems of plants, etc.) to make or repair a hedge.
(obsolete, transitive)To bend down (a bush, tree, or other plant).
(obsolete, transitive)To intertwine (branches or stems of plants) on a trellis; to trellis; also, to train (a tree or other plant) to grow against a wall; to espalier.
To intertwine (branches or stems of plants) on a trellis; to trellis; also, to train (a tree or other plant) to grow against a wall; to espalier.
(obsolete, transitive)To intertwine (branches, flowers, etc.) together; to interweave.
(obsolete, transitive)To intertwine branches or stems of plants of (a wood) to block a passage for defensive purposes.
- interlace the shoots of
- dash a liquid upon or against
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
Probably onomatopoeic, referring to the sound of splashing. The noun is attested earlier tProbably onomatopoeic, referring to the sound of splashing. The noun is attested earlier than the verb. It is not clear whether this word is related to plash (“small pool of standing water”) (see etymology 1). The interjection is derived from the noun.
The verb is derived from Late Middle English *plashen (attested by the present participle form plashynge), from Anglo-Norman plaissier, plaisser, Old French plaissier, plaisser, and Old French plaissier (“to bend; to interlace”) (modern French plaisser (regional)), from Late Latin *plaxus, a variant of Latin plexus, the perfect passive participle of plectō (“to braid, plait, weave; to bend; to turn; to twist”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to fold; to plait, weave”). Doublet of pleach.
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Forms
plashes, plashing, plashed, plashedSynonyms
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4 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle