splashingn.1
/ˈsplaʃɪŋ/ 1.
a. The action of the verb, in various senses.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [noun]
splashing1699
splash1831
plashment1876
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. Splashing, l'action d'éclabousser.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Splashing,..the act of daubing with wet and dirt.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. vii. 70 There are marchings and wet splashings by steep paths.
1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific ix. 114 A whole shoal of them [sharks] were moving about, I suppose attracted by my splashing in the water.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 14 Centring all was a fountain at play, intermingling its musical splashings with the..song of birds.
b. Medicine. Noisy motion of air and liquid inside the body.
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the world > life > the body > internal organs > cavities occupied by internal organs > [noun] > chest > noisy motion of air or liquid
splashing1890
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [noun] > digestion > sounds of
splashing1890
1890 F. Taylor Man. Pract. Med. 344 In cases of hydro- or pyo-pneumothorax, shaking the patient will elicit a splashing sound.
1897 Hutchison & Rainy Clin. Methods 62 If ‘splashing’ be elicited it will be partly heard and partly felt. Distinct splashing elicited three hours after a meal..is very suggestive of a dilated stomach.
1903 T. D. Savill Clin. Med. I. 350 Gastric succussion or splashing.
1907 H. L. McKisack Dict. Med. Diagnosis 389 Splashing sounds may be elicited by placing the left hand flat over the epigastrium, and pressing suddenly or striking sharply with the right hand over the lower ribs on the left side.
1971 R. B. Cole Essent. Respiratory Dis. iii. 29 The presence of air and fluid in the pleural space (hydro~pneumothorax) is indicated if a splash can be heard on auscultation when the thoracic cage is gently shaken. It should not be confused with the splashing of gastric contents.
2. technical. (See quots.)
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1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §542 Splashing is a mode of colouring walls, which may be performed..in water, in glutinous, or in oil, colours.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §542 The object of splashing is either to imitate the lichens and weather stains of an old wall, or some particular kind of stone.
Compounds
attributive in splashing leather. splashing-board n. = splash-board n. 1.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > board or leather apron at front
apron1790
dashing-leather1794
knee-boot1794
splashing-board1809
splash-board1826
boot1828
dashboard1847
apron-cloth1857
dasher1858
dash1868
splasher1887
storm apron1895
1809 Sporting Mag. 34 200 The pole came out of the splashing leather.
a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. vii. 87 Seat, trunk, sword-case, splashing-board, lamps, silver moulding, all you see complete; the iron-work as good as new, or better. He asked fifty guineas. View more context for this quotation
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splashingn.2
dialect.
Pleaching. Also splashing-bill, a pleaching-bill.
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the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun]
hedgingc1380
pleachinga1398
plashing1495
tining1522
side-haying1610
switching1812
splashing1869
the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] > hedging implements
hedge-bill1497
hedging-bill1497
staff-hook?1523
plashing-bill?a1549
plashing-tool?a1549
hack-hook1771
rice knife1858
splasher1868
hedge trimmer1871
splashing-bill1899
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. x. 123 The rampart of ash, which is made by what we call ‘splashing’.
1899 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 10 104 The work on well-established hedges is most quickly performed by a long-handled splashing-bill.
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splashingadj.
1. Causing some stir or sensation; making something of a display.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective]
rankOE
peacockly?a1425
ruffling1531
garish1545
peacockish1551
peacock-like1576
ostentatious1590
fastuous?1591
flaring1593
flantitanting1596
ostentive1599
ostentative1601
showful1607
flourishable1614
flourishing1616
flaunting1624
ostentous1624
ostentatory1638
swasha1640
fanfaron1670
paradeful1748
ostensible1782
epideictic1790
fandangous1797
flashy1801
affiché1818
show-off1818
splashing1820
flaunty1825
splash-and-dash1830
pretentious1832
flash1836
splashy1836
pretenceful1841
swanky1842
peacocky1844
fantysheeny1847
splurgy1852
cheesy1858
pretensivea1868
duchessy1870
swagger1879
lavish1882
splurging1884
show-offy1890
razzmatazz1900
show-offish1903
whoop-de-do1904
Ritz1908
split-arse1917
swanking1918
ritzy1919
fantoosh1920
knock-me-down1922
showboating1936
showboat1939
hellzapoppin'1945
zazzy1961
glitzy1966
sploshy1966
zhuzhy1968
noncy1989
bling1999
1820 Creevey in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1904) I. 326 We are now evidently going to have a splashing debate.
1850 W. P. Scargill Eng. Sketch-bk. 4 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.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [adjective] > splashing or dashing
flashy1582
swashing1620
plashing1813
splashing1837
spluttering1846
slushing1863
sousing1891
sloshing1924
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 25 A splashing rain drove us down into the cabin.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 1 It feeds in the spring-time many splashing brooks.
1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 224 I unwittingly entered the drowsily splashing ferry-boat and leaped upon the quay.
3. Of the nature of, suggestive of, a splash.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [adjective] > splashing
plashy1582
plashing1813
splashy1835
splashing1897
sloshing1924
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 661 Mention must be made of the splashing sounds which may be produced by shaking the patient.
Derivatives
ˈsplashingly adv.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [adverb] > splashing
splashingly1831
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son II. xxxiv. 280 I heard something fall splashingly into the boat.
1882 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis II. 107 Some heavy rain-drops fell splashingly.
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