plash
IPA: pɫˈæʃ
noun
- (UK, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
- A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
- A sudden downpour.
- The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
verb
- (intransitive) To splash.
- (transitive) To cause a splash.
- (transitive) To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
- (transitive) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
- (transitive) To bend down a bough (in order to pick fruit from it).
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Examples of "plash" in Sentences
- Skin mounted flow plash exterior for public performances.
- It felt so much higher there, so much farther from the sparkle and plash of the waves.
- "I'm not interested, as a poet, in words like 'plash' - Seamus Heaney words, interesting words.
- The air smelled strong and alive, and she could hear the purl and plash of fountains, the ting of rain-chimes, and the deep peal of rain-drums.
- Ben had heard that significant cry of alarm, and almost simultaneously the "plash" made by the little Portuguese as her body dropped down upon the water.
- And, for Jerry, most delightful of all, there was the gurgle and plash of a brooklet that pursued its invisible way over mossy stones under a garmenture of tender and delicate ferns.
- She collected water in a red plastic cup, then tilted the cup over her belly, letting the thin stream plash onto her skin where it split apart into rivulets that ran down the sides of her pregnant dome.
- The sense of calm and silence, the great waste of sea, the monotonous 'plash' of the paddle-wheels, the sort of solitude in the midst of such a crowd, the gradually lengthening distance behind, with the lessening, as gradual, in front, and the always novel feeling of approach to a new country -- these elements impart a sort of dreamy, poetical feeling to the scene.
- The lunch mural, for want of a better title, strikes an altogether different chord — that of an evacuated spring-blossomy babbling-brook alpine hinterland glorious people-scape, in which the principal technical challenge for the artist was to crank up the volume of the foliage and the foreground blossoms, whilst reining in the waters, because for obvious reasons the plash and gurgle of cataracts can be counterproductive at lunchtime.