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English

Etymology

Probably an alteration of plash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /splæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

splash (plural splashes)

1. (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.

   I heard a splash when the rock landed in the pond.

2. A small amount of liquid.

   • Add the tomato purée and cook for a further 4-5 minutes. Add a splash of whisky to the pan, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to deglaze. - recipe, Grilled fillet of halibut and langoustine tails with smoked haddock risotto and shellfish froth by Chris Morrison

   I felt a splash of rain, so I put up my hood.

   I felt a splash of water on my leg as the car drove into the nearby puddle.

3. A small amount (of color).

   The painter put a splash of blue on the wall to make it more colorful

4. A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.

   There was a visible splash on his pants after he went to the bathroom.

5. An impact or impression.

   The new movie made quite a splash upon its release.

6. (computing, informal) A splash screen.
   • 2008, Ron Carswell, Heidi Webb, Guide to Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005

     When the splash appears with Please wait, wait for Windows to start configuration.

7. (wrestling) A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
8. (dated) A cosmetic powder to whiten the complexion.

Synonyms

• (sound of liquid): plash

Translations

Verb

splash (third-person singular simple present splashes, present participle splashing, simple past and past participle splashed)

1. To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
   • 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “She Moves On”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.

     I know the reason I feel so blessed / My heart still splashes inside my chest

2. To disperse a fluid suddenly; to splatter.

3. (transitive) To hit or expel liquid at.

4. To create an impact or impression; to print, post or publicize prominently.

5. (transitive) To spend (money).

6. (transitive, nautical) To launch a ship.
   • 1999 David M. Kennedy, "Victory at Sea", Atlantic Monthly, March 1999:

     In the two years following Midway, Japanese shipyards managed to splash only six additional fleet carriers. The United States in the same period added seventeen, along with ten medium carriers and eighty-six escort carriers.

7. (military, slang) To shoot down (an aircraft) over water.
9. (transitive, MLE) To stab (a person), causing them to bleed.

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Derived terms

Related terms

• splish
• splosh

Portuguese

Etymology

Probably borrowed from English splash.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.?pl?.?/, /is.?pl?.?i/

Interjection

splash

1. (onomatopoeia) splash.

Synonyms

• chuá

English

Etymology

Scandinavian. Compare Swedish dialect svasska, Norwegian svakka, English dialect swack (“a blow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sw??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

swash (countable and uncountable, plural swashes)

1. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken
2. (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
3. A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
4. (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
5. (obsolete) A blustering noise.
6. (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
7. (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
8. (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
   • 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises

     have the Upper Sholder of that Swash Sculped down straight, viz. to a Right Angle

References

• swash in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Translations

Verb

swash (third-person singular simple present swashes, present participle swashing, simple past and past participle swashed)

1. (intransitive) To swagger; to bluster and brag.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 40

     How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!

3. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.

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Translations

See also

• swashbuckler
• swash letter

Adjective

swash (comparative more swash, superlative most swash)

1. Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.

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Anagrams

• Shaws, shaws, shwas