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Definition of Plashy
1. a. Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy.
Definition of Plashy
1. Adjective. Watery, wet, waterlogged. ¹
2. Adjective. Marked by flecks of colour, as if plashed with paint. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plashy
1. marshy [adj PLASHIER, PLASHIEST] - See also: marshy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plashy
Literary usage of Plashy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Fox, Thomas Ellwood (1832)
"After this, our way to Carolina grew worse, being much of it plashy, and pretty
full of great bogs and swamps; so that we were commonly wet to the knees, ..."
2. Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (1870)
"eleven there was a broad sheet of daylight in the west, gleaming brightly over
the plashy sands. I question whether there be any total night at this season. ..."
3. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"A pool, plashy ground, &c.] Add ; This must be viewed as radically the same with
.... plashy ..."
4. The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies: Hero and Leander ; Lycus the Centaur by Thomas Hood (1827)
"And soon the rolling mist, that 'gau arise From plashy mead and undiscover'd
stream, Earth's morning incense to the early skies, ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"Ot.ti'U used by boys sliding. s6. plashy miro ; snow half thawed ; ' snow-broth.'
Sloshy, adj. plashy; muddy. Slotch, cn, var. pron. of 'slouch,' to carry ..."
6. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Fox, Thomas Ellwood (1832)
"After this, our way to Carolina grew worse, being much of it plashy, and pretty
full of great bogs and swamps; so that we were commonly wet to the knees, ..."
7. Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (1870)
"eleven there was a broad sheet of daylight in the west, gleaming brightly over
the plashy sands. I question whether there be any total night at this season. ..."
8. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"A pool, plashy ground, &c.] Add ; This must be viewed as radically the same with
.... plashy ..."
9. The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies: Hero and Leander ; Lycus the Centaur by Thomas Hood (1827)
"And soon the rolling mist, that 'gau arise From plashy mead and undiscover'd
stream, Earth's morning incense to the early skies, ..."
10. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"Ot.ti'U used by boys sliding. s6. plashy miro ; snow half thawed ; ' snow-broth.'
Sloshy, adj. plashy; muddy. Slotch, cn, var. pron. of 'slouch,' to carry ..."
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