Plash vs Plashing - What's the difference?
plash | plashing |
(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
A sound that plashes, as of water.
* 1862 , Samuel Ward Francis, Inside out: a curious book (page 216)
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.
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
.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
*plashing
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Barest plashings of a liquid sphere; eloquent breathings of an emerald world...