plash

Definition

A small pool of standing water; a puddle.

Etymology

From Middle English plasch, plasche, from Old English plæsċ (“pool, puddle”), from Proto-West Germanic *plask, probably ultimately imitative. 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”).

Example Sentences

• "Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh."
• "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."
• "Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]"