plash

Meanings

Noun

• A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
• A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
• A sudden downpour.
• The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

Verb

• To splash.
• To cause a splash.
• To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
• To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
• To bend down a bough (in order to pick fruit from it).

Origin

• From Middle English plasch, plasche, from Old English plæsċ. Cognate with Dutch plas. Related also to West Frisian plaskje, Dutch plassen, German platschen.
• From Middle English *plasshen, *plaisshen, *plesshen, from Old French plaissier, plessier. For the noun, compare Middle English plaisshes. Compare also pleach.