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单词 blash
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blashn.

/blaʃ/
Etymology: A modern word or series of words of onomatopoeic formation; with reminiscences of plash , splash , dash , etc., and probably of blow ; in sense 4 perhaps of blaze and flash.
dialect.
1. A dash or plash of liquid, as when rain appears to fall in sheets; a mixture of blow and splash.
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1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii Thick-blawn wreaths of snaw, or blashy thows.]
1805 A. Scott Harvest in Poems 36 (Jam.) Where snaws and rains wi' sleety blash.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxvi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 744 A snaw storm came down frae the mountains..noo a whirl, and noo a blash.
2. Watery stuff; said of very liquid mud, poor tea, watered milk. figurative. Wishy-washy talk. dialect.
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [noun] > weak tea
water bewitched1591
cat-lap1785
blash1835
skilly1927
1835 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) I. 52 Dear Mother, excuse all this blash.
1864 J. C. Atkinson Whitby Gloss. (at cited word) ‘It's all blash,’ or ‘blish blash’; nonsense.
1887 N.E.D. at Blash Mod.Sc. No proper meal; only a blash of tea.
3. A gash or smash due to a blow; a bash.
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1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 169 A..skull, with a tremendous blash across it.
4. A broad flash; a blaze flashing up.
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1875 Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Blash, a sudden flame.
1875 Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Blash-boggart, a fire-goblin, or flash-goblin; that is, a goblin that flashes and disappears. It is more commonly used figuratively, and is applied to persons who are fiery, wild, or strange in appearance.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

blashv.

/blaʃ/
Etymology: Formed as blash n.
dialect.
transitive. To dash a quantity of liquid; to dash (a thing) broadly with liquid. intransitive. To plash, to splash heavily in, work in, water.
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1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 91 Whan..blashan rains, or cranreughs fa'.
1861 Family Herald 16 Feb. 672 ‘How much water does your mistress..put in our..milk?’ ‘I'm sure,’ replied the rogue, ‘I don't know..she just blashes it in.’
1864 J. C. Atkinson Whitby Gloss. Blash, to splash with water. Also in sense of going or having gone to sea. ‘What he has got, he has blash'd for,’ as property obtained by a seafaring life.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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