[Alteration of PLASHY a.1 Cf. SPLASH sb.2] Fall of shallow pools or puddles; wet and soft.

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1727.  Bailey (vol. II.), Splashy, washy, wet, watery.

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1742.  Richardson, De Foe’s Tour Gt. Brit., II. 34. Not far from hence is Sedgmore, a watry, splashy Place.

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1821.  Clare, Vill. Minstr., II. 185. Old Winter leaves her splashy slough.

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1847.  C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, xxviii. [A light] led me … through a wide bog; which … was splashy and shaking even now, in the height of summer.

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1890.  Baker, Wild Beasts, I. 195. Even at this season the ground was splashy beneath the heavy weight of our advancing line.

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