Plash

Noun

 * 1)  A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) A splash, or the sound made by a splash.

Verb

 * 1)  To splash.
 * 2) * 1847: Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
 * ... heedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her, she remained ...
 * 1)  To cause a splash.

Adjectives for Plash
appalling; muffled; startled; noisy.

Thesaurus
artificial lake, babble, bayou lake, brash, bubble, burble, burst of rain, cistern, cloudburst, dam, dead water, deluge, dike, douse, downfall, downflow, downpour, drencher, etang, farm pond, fishpond, flood, foam, freshwater lake, froth, glacial lake, guggle, gurgle, gushing rain, heavy rain, inland sea, lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, lap, lapping, linn, loch, lough, mere, millpond, millpool, nyanza, oxbow lake, pond, pondlet, pool, pour, puddle, purl, rainburst, rainspout, rainstorm, reservoir, ripple, salina, salt pond, scud, shower, slop, slosh, soaker, soaking rain, sparge, spate, spatter, spindrift, splash, splatter, splosh, splurge, spout, spray, sprinkle, spume, spurtle, stagnant water, standing water, still water, sump, swash, swish, tank, tarn, tidal pond, torrent of rain, trill, volcanic lake, wash, washing, water hole, water pocket, waterspout, well

Etymology
Possibly from plashe (puddle), from  plæsc. Compare the German platschen.

Translations

 * Czech: šplouchat


 * German:

Related terms

 * plashy

Anagrams

 * phals