Plash vs Dabble - What's the difference?
plash | dabble |
(UK, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
* Isaac Barrow
A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
* Henry James, The Aspern Papers
To splash.
* Keats
* Longfellow
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To cause a splash.
To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
* to plash a hedge
To partially wet (something) by splashing or dipping; connotes playfulness.
To participate or have an interest in an activity, but in a casual or superficial way.
In lang=en terms the difference between plash and dabble
is that plash is to cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of while dabble is to participate or have an interest in an activity, but in a casual or superficial way.As verbs the difference between plash and dabble
is that plash is to splash or plash can be to cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of while dabble is to partially wet (something) by splashing or dipping; connotes playfulness.As a noun plash
is (uk|dialectal) a small pool of standing water; a puddle or plash can be the branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.plash
English
Etymology 1
.Noun
(plashes)- Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh .
- (Francis Bacon)
- These shallow plashes .
- Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash , and as we listened we watched it in silence.
Verb
- plashing among bedded pebbles
- Far below him plashed the waters.
- to plash a wall in imitation of granite
Etymology 2
(etyl) plaissier, . Compare pleach.Noun
(plashes)Verb
- (Evelyn)
Anagrams
*dabble
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The children sat on the dock and dabbled their feet in the water.
- She's an actress by trade, but has been known to dabble in poetry.
