▪ I. plashy, a.1
(ˈplæʃɪ)
[f. plash n.1 + -y. So LG. plassig swampy.]
Abounding in shallow pools or puddles; marshy, swampy, boggy; wet and sloppy; full of plashes of rain.
| a 1552 Leland Itin. II. 37, 3. litle Bridges of Wood, wher under wer plaschy Pittes of Water of the overflowing of Tame Ryver. 1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. (Grosart) V. 211 Those slymie plashie fieldes of Gorlstone. a 1656 Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 736 The field was very plashy by reason of much rain that fell. 1770 Goldsm. Des. Vill. 130 Yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring. 1786 W. Gilpin Lakes Cumberld. (1808) I. vii. 99 The fen is a plashy inundation, formed on a flat. 1857 Hughes Tom Brown i. iii, The two..jogged along the deep-rutted plashy roads. 1862 R. Paul in Mem. xviii. (1872) 237 Such a plashy and untoward month of March. |
b. Growing in plashes or wet places.
| 1822 Hazlitt Table-t. Ser. ii. vii. (1869) 149 A stream, skirted with willows and plashy sedges. |
c. Of watery consistence and taste.
| a 1653 Gouge Comm. Heb. xiii. 1 Love is as salt, which infuseth a savoury and wholesom taste into such things as would otherwise be fresh and plashy. |
▪ II. ˈplashy, a.2
[f. plash n.2 + -y.]
1. That plashes; that dashes or falls with a plash, as water; that splashes the water.
| 1582 Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 76 Vp swel thee surges, in chauffe sea plasshye we tumble. 1794 Burns Jockey's ta'en the Parting Kiss i, Plashy sleets and beating rain! 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk, Leg. Sleepy Hollow, A plashy tramp by the side of the bridge caught the sensitive ear of Ichabod. 1859 Holland Gold F. xxiv. 273 Repeat the music of the rain, at the feet of plashy waterfalls. |
2. Marked as if splashed with colour. rare.
| 1820 Keats Hyper. ii. 45 Creüs was one;..Iäpetus another; in his grasp, A serpent's plashy neck. |