plash

Betekenis

Noun

1. A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
2. A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
3. A sudden downpour.

Verb

1. To splash.
2. To cause a splash.
3. To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.

Verb

1. To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
2. To bend down a bough (in order to pick fruit from it).

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/plæʃ/

Etymologie

From Middle English plasch, plasche, from Old English plæsċ (“pool, puddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *plask, probably ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Dutch plas (“pool, watering hole”). Related also to West Frisian plaskje (“to splash, splatter”), Dutch plassen (“to splash, splatter”), German platschen (“to splash”).