splashy

Adjective

splashy (comparative splashier, superlative splashiest)

1. Relating to making splashes or the sound of splashing.
2. Full of dirty water; muddy and wet.
   • The light was yet there; shining dim, but constant, through the rain. […] It led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog; which would have been impassable in winter, and was splashy and shaking even now, in the height of summer.1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter II, in Jane Eyre. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 65
   • 'Cross splashy field where wild things grow, / Past shining reeds in knee-deep tarns, […]1914, The Association Monthly, volume 7, page 254
3. (figuratively) Ostentatious, showy.
   • His splashy car was supposed to show his wealth, but instead it showed his poor taste.
   • Jamie Oliver prepares a "pukka" picnic of strawberries, champagne and lobster for a sail through the royal borough of Windsor on his mate's splashy new motorboat.2003, TV Guide, volume 51, page 146
4. (figuratively) Splashed with colour.