Definition of "plash" [plash]

• A light splash. (noun)
• The sound of a light splash. (noun)
• To spatter (liquid) about; splash. (verb-transitive)
• To cause a light splash. (verb-intransitive)

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• ""I'm not interested, as a poet, in words like 'plash' - Seamus Heaney words, interesting words."
• "The sense of calm and silence, the great waste of sea, the monotonous 'plash' of the paddle-wheels, the sort of solitude in the midst of such a crowd, the gradually lengthening distance behind, with the lessening, as gradual, in front, and the always novel feeling of approach to a new country -- these elements impart a sort of dreamy, poetical feeling to the scene."
• "Ben had heard that significant cry of alarm, and almost simultaneously the "plash" made by the little Portuguese as her body dropped down upon the water."