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plashy (PLASH-ee) adjective

   1. Marshy; watery; full of puddles.

   2. Splashy.

[From Middle English plasch (pool), probably of imitative origin.]

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  "It is a vast, archaic, hectic kingdom of stones and boulders and
   pond-studded bogs; of endless reaches of undulating hills and soaring
   mountains; of plunging waterfalls and wide, charging rivers, plashy
   streams and limpid rills."
   Jeannette Haien; The Wondrous World of Connemara, Ireland; The New York
   Times; Jul 15, 1990.

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