plash

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

1. (intransitive) To splash.
2. (transitive) To cause a splash.
3. (transitive) To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.

Verb

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

Synonyms

splash

swash

splatter

lapping

lap

spatter

splosh

slosh

pleach

sprinkle

puddle

beat

dabble

spray

squirt

twine

wind

asperse

mud puddle

atomize

bind

braid

entwine

intertwine

loop

➿

paddle

plait

pool

rut

slush

splash about

Translations

clapoter

plassen

barboter

kabbelen

klotsen

plonzen

klapperen

plätschern

chapotear

salpicar

marulhar

platschen

schizzare

patinhar

sguazzare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/plæʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: plasch

Inherited from Old English: plæsċ

Cognate with Dutch: plas

Cognate with Western Frisian: plaskje

Cognate with Dutch: plassen

Cognate with German: platschen

Inherited from Middle English: *plasshen

Cognate with Middle English: plaisshes

In summary

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”).