plash

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to splash or beat liquid against something

   Heavy raindrops began to plash against the windows.

Simplified etymology

Plash is an Old English word that was probably formed in imitation of the sound of splashing water. It belongs to the same sound-symbolic group as flash, which originally meant “splash water about,” and the later word splash.

From Middle English plash, an imitative water word related to splash. A separate historical verb plash, meaning to interweave branches, has a different French and Latin history.

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