plashy

Adjective

plashy (comparative more plashy, superlative most plashy)

1. Watery, wet, waterlogged.
   • By and by after his iumping vppon them, the Saxons for that Garianonum, or Yarmoth that had giuen vp the ghoſt, in thoſe ſlymie plaſhie fieldes of Gorlſtone trowled vp a ſecond Yarmouth, abutting on the Weſt ſide of the ſhore of this great Yarmouth, […]1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 9
   • The Hare is running races in her mirth; / And with her feet she from the plashy earth / Raises a mist; which, glittering in the sun, / Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.1815 [1802], William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence

   Synonyms:

   drenched, saturated, sodden, bewatered, damp, dripping, drunk, humid, irriguous, madid

2. Marked by flecks of colour, as if plashed with paint.

   Synonyms:

   speckled, distinct, marked, patterned, figured