Plash

Quick meaning: Plash is a noun meaning (UK, dialectal) A heavy fall of rain; a downpour.

Meaning

(UK, dialectal) A heavy fall of rain; a downpour.

More Meanings

1. (figurative, obsolete, rare) A splash of light on a surface.
2. To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
3. To agitate or plunge into (water or some other liquid), causing it to splash.
4. To hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; also, to move in water with a splashing sound; to splash.
5. Of water or some other liquid: to hit something, or to move about, with a splashing sound; to splash.
6. A sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something; also, an act causing this sound; a splash.
7. (chiefly Northern England, North Midlands, countable) A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.

Example Sentences

The mildew drops fell one by one, / With tinkling plash, upon the stone.

Out of the vvound the redblood flovved freſh, / That vnderneath his feet ſoone made a purple pleſh.

Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash?

[…] Arthur with a hundred spears / Rode far, till o'er the illimitable reed, / And many a glancing plash and sallowy isle, / The wide-wing'd sunset of the misty marsh / Glared on a huge machicolated tower […]

Word Forms

• plashes
• plashing
• plashed
• plashest
• plashedst
• plasheth

Synonyms for plash

Depending on context, synonyms include splosh, cloudburst, rainstorm, plap, pleach, swash.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include swash, spatter, splatter, splosh, splash, pleach.

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