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Plash vs Plush - What's the difference?

plash | plush |

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

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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)

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    plush

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (UK) Very extravagant.
  • (UK) Very expensive, or appearing expensive.
  • They lived in a plush apartment complex.
  • (of a man-made object) Having a soft, fluffy exterior.
  • This plush toy is so cute and soft - I want it!

    Noun

  • A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
  • *
  • , 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)
  • 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.
  • A (type of) child's toy, usually an animal, filled with soft material.
  • * 2002 , Billboard (volume 114, number 9, 2 March 2002, page 70)
  • 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.
  • * 2008 , Lionel Birglen, Thierry Laliberté, Clément M. Gosselin, Underactuated Robotic Hands (page 94)
  • 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.
  • * 2011 , Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012 (page 759)
  • 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).

    Derived terms

    * plushie * plushly * plushness * plushy * plush toy