Plash vs Plush - What's the difference?
plash | plush |
(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
(UK) Very extravagant.
(UK) Very expensive, or appearing expensive.
(of a man-made object) Having a soft, fluffy exterior.
A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush , and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
A (type of) child's toy, usually an animal, filled with soft material.
* 2002 , Billboard (volume 114, number 9, 2 March 2002, page 70)
* 2008 , Lionel Birglen, Thierry Laliberté, Clément M. Gosselin, Underactuated Robotic Hands (page 94)
* 2011 , Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012 (page 759)
As nouns the difference between plash and plush
is that plash is a small pool of standing water; a puddle while plush is a textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.As a verb plash
is to splash.As an adjective plush is
very extravagant.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
*plush
English
Adjective
(er)- They lived in a plush apartment complex.
- This plush toy is so cute and soft - I want it!
Noun
- That night the Boy slept in a different bedroom, and he had a new bunny to sleep with him. It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about it.
- When Play Along — the holder of the Care Bears master toy license — placed Care Bears plushes in Spencer Gifts last year, tweens and teenage girls bought the toys.
- For a small fee, the player can control a crane equipped with a gripper to pick a gift, usually a plush or a small toy, and has to drop it in a place where he/she can grab it.
- L.A. Prop Cinema Storage, full of kids' clothing (mostly for girls), PJs, and lots of toys and plushes (there's also a substantial infant area).