[f. SPLASH v.1]
1. Causing some stir or sensation; making something of a display.
1820. Creevey, in C. Papers (1904), I. 326. We are now evidently going to have a splashing debate.
1835. W. P. Scargill, Provincial Sketches, 10. The roystering,… splashing, dashing accomplishments of the country gentleman.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 24 Jan., 1/3. The fact … does not … diminish the danger of a splashing intervention in foreign affairs.
2. Making or causing a splash or splashes.
1837. Ht. Martineau, Soc. Amer., III. 25. A splashing rain drove us down into the cabin.
1883. Stevenson, Silverado Sq., 1. It feeds in the springtime many splashing brooks.
1889. Science-Gossip, XXV. 224. I unwittingly entered the drowsily splashing ferry-boat and leaped upon the quay.
3. Of the nature of, suggestive of, a splash.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 661. Mention must be made of the splashing sounds which may be produced by shaking the patient.
Hence Splashingly adv.
1831. Capt. Trelawny, Adv. Younger Son, lxxv. I heard something fall splashingly into the boat.
1882. E. O’Donovan, Merv Oasis, II. 107. Some heavy rain-drops fell splashingly.
