plashed

Verb

plash (third-person singular simple present plashes, present participle plashing, simple past and past participle plashed)

1. (also, figuratively, transitive) To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
   • When the halcyon is sporting far out on the seas, / In the beach's bright ripple thou plashest thy wings, / And tossest the spray from the shore-eddied rings.1850 April, W. F. Jones, Jr., “The Sea-gull”, in B[enjamin] F[ranklin] Tefft, editor, The Ladies’ Repository: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to Literature and Religion, volume X, Cincinnati, Oh.: L....
   1. (also, figuratively, transitive) To splash or sprinkle (a surface, such as a wall) with a liquid colouring matter.
      • to plash a wall in imitation of granite
2. (Shetland, archaic, transitive) To agitate or plunge into (water or some other liquid), causing it to splash.
   • Then, loa ye, from Tenedos through ſtanding deepe floud apeaſed^([sic – meaning appeared?]) / (I ſhiuer in telling) two ſerpents monſterus ouglie / Plaſht the water ſulcking to the ſhoare moſt haſtily ſwinging.1582, “The Second Booke of Virgil His Æneis”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC, page 27
3. (intransitive) To hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; also, to move in water with a splashing sound; to splash.
   • Thro thick and thin they ſcour'd about, / Plaſhin thro Dubs and Sykes, […]1718, Allan Ramsay, “Christ’s-Kirk on the Green, in Three Cantos”, in Poems, 5th edition, Edinburgh: Printed for the author […] [and sold by T. Jauncy […]], published 1722, →OCLC, canto III, page 117

   Synonyms:

   plap, splosh

4. (also, figuratively, intransitive) Of water or some other liquid: to hit something, or to move about, with a splashing sound; to splash.
   • [T]he ſalt vvater plaſhes and froaths to ſee it ſelf ſo ſuddenly reſiſted: but the moiſt breath uſually vaporing in or upon the Seas makes it ſometimes turbulent.1677, Tho[mas] Herbert, “[Saint Helena]”, in Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. […], 4th edition, London: […] R. Everingham, for R. Scot, T. Basset, J[ohn] Wright...
5. (Shetland, archaic, intransitive) To hit someone or something with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound.
   • In clammie waies he treaddeth by and by, / And plasheth and sprayeth all that be him nye.c. 1592–1593 (date written), Thomas Nash[e], “The Choosing of Valentines”, in John S[tephen] Farmer, editor, The Choise of Valentines: Or The Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo […], London: Privately...

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