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plash

Plash (noun) means a small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.

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A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.
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Etymology

From Middle English plasch, plasche, plash, plashe (“pool of standing water, marshy place; torrent of water (?)”), from Late Old English plæsċ, plesċ (“pool; puddle”), probably from Proto-West Germanic *plask (“pool”); further etymology unknown, probably ultimately onomatopoeic, referring to the sound of splashing. cognates * German platschen (“to splash”) * Middle Dutch plasch, plas (“pool”) (modern Dutch plas (“pool, watering hole”), plassen (“to splash, splatter”); Middle French plache (“pool”), plascq (“damp meadow”); Anglo-Norman plasseis (“marshes”, plural)) * West Frisian plaskje (“to splash, splatter”)

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"plash" (noun) means a small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.

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