different between plash vs plesh
plash
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
From Middle English plasch, plasche, from Old English plæs? (“pool, puddle”). Cognate with Dutch plas (“pool, watering hole”). Related also to West Frisian plaskje (“to splash, splatter”), Dutch plassen (“to splash, splatter”), German platschen (“to splash”).
Noun
plash (plural plashes)
- (Britain, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh.
- 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Coulers of Good and Evill, 4:
- Hereof Aesop framed the Fable of the two Frogs that consulted together in time of drowth (when many plashes that they had repayred to were dry) what was to be done.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXII:
- Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Consideration of our Latter End (sermon)
- These shallow plashes.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
- 1888, Henry James, The Aspern Papers
- Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash, and as we listened we watched it in silence.
- 1888, Henry James, The Aspern Papers
- A sudden downpour.
Verb
plash (third-person singular simple present plashes, present participle plashing, simple past and past participle plashed)
- (intransitive) To splash.
- plashing among bedded pebbles
- 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha
- Far below him plashed the waters.
- […] heedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her […]
- (transitive) To cause a splash.
- (transitive) To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
- to plash a wall in imitation of granite
Related terms
- plashy
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English *plasshen, *plaisshen, *plesshen, from Old French plaissier, plessier (“to bend”). For the noun, compare Middle English plaisshes (“hedges forming an enclosure, palisade of hedges or wattles”). Compare also pleach.
Noun
plash (plural plashes)
- The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
Verb
plash (third-person singular simple present plashes, present participle plashing, simple past and past participle plashed)
- (transitive) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
- (transitive) To bend down a bough (in order to pick fruit from it).
- {{1679, John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, Second Part: Some of the trees hung over the wall, and my brother did plash and eat.
Anagrams
- Pahls, halps, phals
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plesh
English
Noun
plesh (plural pleshes)
- (obsolete) A pool; a plash.
Anagrams
- Pehls, Selph, helps, shlep
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