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单词 plashy
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plashyadj.1

Brit. /ˈplaʃi/, U.S. /ˈplæʃi/
Forms: 1500s plaschy, 1500s 1800s plashie (Scottish), 1600s– plashy, 1700s– ploshy (English regional (Yorkshire and Cornwall)).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plash n.1, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < plash n.1 + -y suffix1. Compare German regional (Low German) plassig swampy. N.E.D.(1907) also records a sense ‘Of watery consistence and taste’, but this is spurious; it arose from a misreading of flashy (compare flashy adj. 2b) in W. Gouge Learned Comm. Heb.as *plashy.
1. Abounding in or characterized by shallow pools or puddles; marshy, swampy, boggy; (hence also) wet, slimy.
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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.
2. Growing in plashes or wet ground. Obsolete.
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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

Brit. /ˈplaʃi/, U.S. /ˈplæʃi/
Forms: 1500s plasshye, 1700s– plashy.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plash n.2, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < plash n.2 + -y suffix1.
That plashes; that dashes or falls with a plash, as water; that splashes the water.
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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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