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Plash vs Plashing - What's the difference?

plash | plashing |

As nouns the difference between plash and plashing

is that plash is a small pool of standing water; a puddle while plashing is a sound that plashes, as of water.

As verbs the difference between plash and plashing

is that plash is to splash while plashing is present participle of lang=en.

plash

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

(plashes)
  • (UK, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
  • Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh .
    (Francis Bacon)
  • * Isaac Barrow
  • These shallow plashes .
  • A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
  • * Henry James, The Aspern Papers
  • Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash , and as we listened we watched it in silence.

    Verb

  • To splash.
  • * Keats
  • plashing among bedded pebbles
  • * Longfellow
  • Far below him plashed the waters.
  • *
  • To cause a splash.
  • To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
  • to plash a wall in imitation of granite

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) plaissier, . Compare pleach.

    Noun

    (plashes)
  • The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
  • Verb

  • To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
  • * to plash a hedge
  • (Evelyn)

    Anagrams

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    plashing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sound that plashes, as of water.
  • * 1862 , Samuel Ward Francis, Inside out: a curious book (page 216)
  • Barest plashings of a liquid sphere; eloquent breathings of an emerald world...
  • The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.
  • The dashing or sprinkling of colouring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.