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blash

blash noun: a heavy fall of rain.

Noun

blash (plural blashes)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A heavy fall of rain.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:blash.

Verb

blash (third-person singular simple present blashes, present participle blashing, simple past and past participle blashed)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) To pour heavily.

Proper noun capitalized: Blash

Blash (plural Blashes)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of blash

Noun
pluralblashes
Verb
third-person singular presentblashes
present participleblashing
past participleblashed
pastblashed
Proper noun
pluralBlashes

Origin of blash

Unclear. Perhaps ultimately imitative; compare plash, pash (“heavy rain”), dialectal clash (“heavy rain”).

Altered spelling of German Blasch.

Words formed from blash

Questions about blash

What does blash mean?
Blash means a heavy fall of rain.
What part of speech is blash?
Blash can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of blash?
The plural of blash is blashes.

Words near blash in the dictionary

  1. blase
  2. blasely
  3. blaseness
  4. Blaser
  5. Blasers
  6. blash
  7. blashed
  8. blashes
  9. blashier
  10. blashiest
  11. Blashill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blash (page history and authors); Blash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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