plashy

[ plash-ee ]

/ ˈplæʃ i /

marshy; wet.

splashing.

Origin of plashy

First recorded in 1545–55; plash¹ + -y¹

Also applied to anything like plashy ground, but most commonly to snow in a thaw.

The Sailor's Word-Book |William Henry Smyth
To reach the station Kobi, we still had to descend about five versts, across ice-covered rocks and plashy snow.

A Hero of Our Time |M. Y. Lermontov
The bird feeds on plashy meadows, wet moors, by tarns and stream sides, and on mosses which margin the coast.

Poachers and Poaching |John Watson
There was a plashy rivulet amid the rank vegetation just below us, which was a likely haunt for this long-billed visitor.

The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains |Augustus Henry Irby

Roads all plashy or running with water, oozes full, and rivulets overflowing; rocks of dolomite jutting out here and there.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 |David Livingstone

plashy

/ (ˈplæʃɪ) /

wet or marshy

splashing or splashy