plash
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English plasch, plasche, plash, plashe (“pool of standing water, marshy place; torrent of water (?)”), from Late Old English plæsċ, plesċ (“pool; puddle”), probably from Proto-West Germanic *plask (“pool”); further etymology unknown, probably ultimately onomatopoeic, referring to the sound of splashing.
cognates
* German platschen (“to splash”)
* Middle Dutch plasch, plas (“pool”) (modern Dutch plas (“pool, watering hole”), plassen (“to splash, splatter”); Middle French plache (“pool”), plascq (“damp meadow”); Anglo-Norman plasseis (“marshes”, plural))
* West Frisian plaskje (“to splash, splatter”)
Inflected forms:
form: plashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plashed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: plash
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: plash
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: plashed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: plash
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: plashest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: plashed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: plashedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: plashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plasheth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: plashed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: plash
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: plashed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: plash
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: plashed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: plash
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: plashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.
pos: noun
tags: Midlands
North
Northern-England
countable
examples: And ſo than they of Bruges began to ſhote gonnes at thẽ. And than they of Gaũt diſcharged at ones thre .C. gonnes at one ſhotte: and ſo tourned a bout the plaſſhe of water and cauſed the ſon⸝ to be in the eyen of thẽ of Bruges⸝ the which greued them ſore: […]
Out of the vvound the redblood flovved freſh, / That vnderneath his feet ſoone made a purple pleſh.
Hereof Aeſope framed the fable of the tvvo Frogges that conſulted together in time of drovvth (vvhen many plaſhes that they had repayred to vvere dry) vvhat vvas to be done, and the one propounded to go dovvn into a deep VVell, becauſe it vvas like the vvater vvould not faile there, but the other anſvvered, yea but if it doe faile, hovv ſhal vve get vp againe? And the reaſon is, that humane actions are ſo vncertaine and ſubiect to perils, as that ſeemeth the beſt courſe vvhich hath moſt paſſages out of it.
[I]t is plain that we should much more dislike, abominate, and shun spiritual evils than temporal; […] that we should run willingly into these shallow plashes of present inconvenience, rather than plunge ourselves into those unfathomable depths of eternal misery.
Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash?
[…] Arthur with a hundred spears / Rode far, till o'er the illimitable reed, / And many a glancing plash and sallowy isle, / The wide-wing'd sunset of the misty marsh / Glared on a huge machicolated tower […]
gloss: To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
transitive
examples: When the halcyon is sporting far out on the seas, / In the beach's bright ripple thou plashest thy wings, / And tossest the spray from the shore-eddied rings.
gloss: To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
transitive
examples: to plash a wall in imitation of granite
gloss: To agitate or plunge into (water or some other liquid), causing it to splash.
pos: verb
tags: Shetland
archaic
transitive
examples: Then, loa ye, from Tenedos through ſtanding deepe floud apeaſed^([sic – meaning appeared?]) / (I ſhiuer in telling) two ſerpents monſterus ouglie / Plaſht the water ſulcking to the ſhoare moſt haſtily ſwinging.
[U]nleſs they lay themſelves dovvn to be trampl'd under foot, plaſh'd like Mortar, or abjure their Religion, the ſame Calamities, the ſame Slaughters, hang over their Heads, […]
"[…] We must go and plash up the mud a little, mustn't we, Juno?" This was addressed to the brown setter, who had jumped up at the sound of the voices and laid her nose in an insinuating way on her master's leg.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Thro thick and thin they ſcour'd about, / Plaſhin thro Dubs and Sykes, […]
At last, by hap, through some young trees it [a lance] struck, / And, plashing among bedded pebbles, stuck / In the middle of a brook,— […]
[O]n and onward still thou [a deer] dashedst, / And in the lake's blue calmness plashedst, / As if by hound pursu'd.
As she walked towards the lane that morning, how well she remembered each spot as she passed it, and the look it wore for the last time! How the smoke was rising from the pastures, how the fish were jumping and plashing in the millstream!
The two long oars plashed in the silence, we glided onwards through the cold mists, and the woods of the opposite shore were now coming near.
[W]e plashed through the burn and off-saddled on the green of Clatteringshaws.
gloss: Of water or some other liquid: to hit something, or to move about, with a splashing sound; to splash.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
intransitive
examples: [T]he ſalt vvater plaſhes and froaths to ſee it ſelf ſo ſuddenly reſiſted: but the moiſt breath uſually vaporing in or upon the Seas makes it ſometimes turbulent.
The stream is so slender, that the gentlest breeze suffices to disturb its descent, and to scatter its pure sweet waters over the face of the cliff. But in that deep forest there is seldom a breath of wind; so that, plashing continually upon one spot, the fount has worn its own little channel of white sand, by which it finds its way to the river.
[H]eedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her, she remained calling, at intervals, and then listening, and then crying outright.
Far below him plashed the waters, / Plashed and washed the dreamy waters; […]
gloss: To hit someone or something with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound.
pos: verb
tags: Shetland
archaic
intransitive
examples: In clammie waies he treaddeth by and by, / And plasheth and sprayeth all that be him nye.
For blood of Martyrs vvell is ſaid to be the Churches Seede, / VVhere Maſſacres haue plaſhed there is ſpread a triple Breede.
Derived words: plashful
plashy
plashing
plashment
plosher
splash
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