单词 | plashy |
释义 | plashyadj.1 1. Abounding in or characterized by shallow pools or puddles; marshy, swampy, boggy; (hence also) wet, slimy. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] fen-lichc1000 fennyc1000 mooryOE marshya1382 marshlyc1410 moorisha1492 queachy?a1500 marish1549 plashya1552 foggy?1555 fen-like1561 undrained1573 fennish1577 boggy1587 paludious1595 wealy1601 marishy1607 snapy1607 uliginous1610 quagmiry1623 paludiate1632 boggish1633 pooly1652 swampy1661 spouty1677 gouty1686 pondy1687 morassy1699 sloppy1699 lairy17.. soggya1722 swampish1725 splashy1727 squashy1751 haggy1765 gaulty1784 slumpy1823 sumpy1824 paludine1852 paludic1854 paludinal1856 paludian1860 paludinous1866 paludal1871 paludial1875 morassic1893 muskeggy1894 swamped1899 the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [adjective] > sloppy waterya1425 lashc1440 washy1615 plashya1656 wish-washy1814 wish-wash1896 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 9 3. litle Bridges of Wood, wher under wer plaschy Pittes of Water of the overflowing of Tame Ryver. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 9 Those slymie plashie fieldes of Gorlstone. a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 736 The field was very plashy by reason of much rain that fell. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Sloppy,..plashy. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 130 Yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring. 1786 W. Gilpin Lakes Cumberland (1808) I. vii. 99 The fen is a plashy inundation, formed on a flat. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna vi. xii. 134 The blood..Of the dead and dying..Like stifled torrents, made a plashy fen Under the feet. 1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 169 Creüs was one;..Iäpetus another; in his grasp, A serpent's plashy neck. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. iii. 52 The two..jogged along the deep-rutted plashy roads. 1862 R. Paul Let. 28 Mar. in B. Bell Mem. R. Paul (1872) xvii. 237 Such a plashy and untoward month of March. 1919 Geogr. Jrnl. 53 296 From Tonglung the road crosses the plashy marshes to the hamlet on the far side. 1927 S. Lewis Elmer Gantry xv. 220 It was an heroic spectacle, that of the Reverend Elmer Gantry..giving her a large plashy kiss. 1983 P. Lennon in Listener 16 June 36/1 It is also the plashy home of the flamingo; the pectinated heron; the marsh harrier and the bee-eater. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [adjective] > that thrives or does not thrive in moisture fenny1543 plashy1822 inundatal1847 paludal1847 hygrophilous1863 uliginal1863 xerophilous1863 uliginose1866 xerophil1884 ombrophilous1895 ombrophobic1895 ombrophobous1895 xerophytic1897 sclerophyllous1903 xeromorphic1909 hydrarch1913 xerarch1913 ombrophile1924 sclerophyll1926 hygrophytic1936 xerophilic1961 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. x. 229 A stream, skirted with willows and plashy sedges. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). plashyadj.2 That plashes; that dashes or falls with a plash, as water; that splashes the water. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [adjective] > splashing plashy1582 plashing1813 splashy1835 splashing1897 sloshing1924 the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [adjective] > splashy plashy1582 plashful1648 splashy1856 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 50 Vp swel thee surges, in chauffe sea plasshye we tumble [L. dispersi iactamur gurgite vasto]. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 887 Plashy sleets and beating rain. 1820 W. Irving Legend Sleepy Hollow in Sketch Bk. vi. 107 A plashy tramp by the side of the bridge caught the sensitive ear of Ichabod. 1859 J. G. Holland Gold Foil xxiv. 273 Repeat the music of the rain, at the feet of plashy waterfalls. 1883 Fish & Fisheries (Herbert) 334 These [sc. the smaller boats] were shallow, rudely constructed, ‘plashy’ things, from 11 feet to 15 feet keel. 1990 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 July v. 15/1 It [sc. Ireland] is a vast, archaic, hectic kingdom of stones and boulders and pond-studded bogs;..of plunging waterfalls and wide, charging rivers, plashy streams and limpid rills. 2001 Observer (Nexis) 7 Oct. 10 Onwards, past the plashy fountain, the postbox, the statue of Pan, the swimming pool. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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