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intj
Used to represent the sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Midlands, North, Northern-England, countable
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noun
A sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something; also, an act causing this sound; a splash.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: splosh
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noun
A heavy fall of rain; a downpour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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Synonyms: cloudburst, rainstorm
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noun
A splash of light on a surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, obsolete, rare
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noun
A plant stem which has been partly cut, bent down, and intertwined with other stems to make or repair a hedge; also, a bush, hedge, etc., which has been pleached in this manner; a pleach.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive
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verb
To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively, transitive
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verb
To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
To splash or sprinkle (a surface, such as a wall) with a liquid colouring matter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively, transitive
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verb
To agitate or plunge into (water or some other liquid), causing it to splash.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Shetland, archaic, transitive
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verb
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: plap, splosh
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verb
Of water or some other liquid: to hit something, or to move about, with a splashing sound; to splash.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, figuratively, intransitive
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verb
To hit someone or something with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Shetland, archaic, intransitive
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verb
Synonym of pleach (“to make or repair (a hedge) by partly cutting plant stems, bending them down, and intertwining them with other stems”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, transitive
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Synonyms: pleach
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To bend down and intertwine (branches or stems of plants, etc.) to make or repair a hedge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To bend down and intertwine (branches or stems of plants, etc.) to make or repair a hedge.
To bend down (a bush, tree, or other plant).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
Qualifier: generally
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verb
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
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, flowers, etc.) together; to interweave.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
Qualifier: generally
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verb
To intertwine branches or stems of plants of (a wood) to block a passage for defensive purposes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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noun
the sound like water splashing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: splash
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: noise
Narrower terms: splat
verb
dash a liquid upon or against
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: spatter, splatter, splash, splosh, swash
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: scatter, sprinkle, dot, dust, disperse
Narrower terms: puddle, slosh, slush, slosh around, slush around
verb
interlace the shoots of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: pleach
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace
History
Probably 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. As regards the noun, compare German Platsch (noun), platsch (interjection). As regards the verb, compare Early Dutch plasschen, plassen (“to splash in water”); Middle Low German plasken, plassen (“to splash”); Swedish plaska (“to splash”).
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”)
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. The noun is derived from the verb. cognates * Old French plesce (“enclosure surrounded by hedges”) (Middle French plesse, Middle English plaishes (“hedges forming an enclosure, palisade of hedges or wattles”), modern French plaisse, plesse (“enclosure surrounded by hedges; hedge; branch of a hedge”))
Across languages
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