Plash vs Podge - What's the difference?
plash | podge |
(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
*
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, dialect) A puddle; a plash.
(UK, dialect) porridge
As nouns the difference between plash and podge
is that 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 while podge is (informal) a fat person or podge can be (uk|dialect) a puddle; a plash.As a verb plash
is to splash or plash can be to cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.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
*podge
English
Etymology 1
From (l)See also
* hodge-podgeEtymology 2
Compare (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Skinner)
- (Halliwell)
