splish-splashv.
rare.
intransitive. To splash repeatedly.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (intransitive)] > repeatedly
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1735 J. Swift tr. H. MacGauran Irish-Feast in Wks. II. 296 The Floor is all wet,..While the Water and Sweat, Splish, splash in their Pumps.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 160 They went splish-splashing through an almost interminable inundation.
Derivatives
splishy-splashy adj. rare. sloppy, slushy.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wet weather > [adjective] > wet (of weather, place, or time)
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moista1398
waterya1398
moistya1500
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slabby1653
weety1658
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fresh1790
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soft1812
givey1829
juicy1837
sploshy1838
sposhy1842
slip-sloppya1845
splishy-splashyc1850
shabby1853
soppy1872
sappy1885
c1850 Denham Tracts (1895) II. 72 A cold, comfortless (splishy-splashy) Sabbath morning.
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