plashy
Americanadjective
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wet or marshy
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splashing or splashy
Etymology
Origin of plashy
Example Sentences
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I would give anything to have written his parody of overstrained journalistic writing: “Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.”
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2018
“Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole — would that be it?”
From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2015
Seek’st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocky billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side.
From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897 by Various
Most unwisely we had neglected to take a meal before starting, not expecting the district to be so plashy and unwholesome as it proved to be.
From Byeways in Palestine by Finn, James
The tiny waterfall was certainly tinkling, a cool, delicate, plashy sound, which mingled with the sound of the breeze in the trees above our heads, and the sweet twitterings of birds.
From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard
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