splash
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splash
- /splæʃ/
Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
Probably an alteration of plash (compare spatter, spill for the initial s-).
noun splashes
- The sound made by an object hitting a liquid. I heard a splash when the rock landed in the pond.
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A small amount of liquid.
I felt a splash of rain, so I put up my hood.
Similar: plash
- A small amount (of color). The painter put a splash of blue on the wall to make it more colorful
- A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid. There was a visible splash on his pants after he went to the bathroom.
- An impact or impression. The new movie made quite a splash upon its release.
- A splash screen. When the splash appears with Please wait, wait for Windows to start configuration.
- A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
- A cosmetic powder to whiten the complexion.
- A large, prominent headline or article. So for a local newspaper, a splash on a fatal crash is just the first of a series of reports.
- A splash page.
- The shooting down of an aircraft over water. Hits were observed, but again the poor functioning of VT ammunition hindered in effecting a splash.
- The bleeding caused by a knife wound. Jojo caught up and gave him a splash Slap that wap, get rid of them plats
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A knife.
You grip your splash for fashion—me and you, we ain’t got the same intentions.
Similar: splasher, jooka ~ jooker, nank, shank, bassy, rambo, pokey, chete, ying
verb splashes · splashing · splashed
- To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass. sit and splash in the bathtub
- (of a liquid) To disperse suddenly as a result of an impulse; to splatter. Water splashed everywhere.
- To hit or agitate (liquid) so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass. She splashed water onto her face.
- To hit or expel liquid at. The children were splashing each other playfully in the sea.
- To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently. The headline was splashed across newspapers everywhere.
- To spend (money). After pay day I can afford to splash some cash and buy myself a motorbike.
- To roughly fill with color. This was pure theatre, with a 60,000 crowd at Wembley adding colour to the fight to face either England or Denmark in Sunday's final, the stadium splashed with the red of Spain at one end and the victorious blue of Italy at the other as crowds flocked back in ever bigger numbers after pandemic restr
- To launch a ship. In the two years following Midway, Japanese shipyards managed to splash only six additional fleet carriers. The United States in the same period added seventeen, along with ten medium carriers and eighty-six escort carriers.
- To shoot down (an aircraft) over water. Planes were sighted at about 5000 yards, fire was opened at 4500 yards; the first plane was splashed about 1800 yards from the ship, the second was splashed about 3000 yards from the ship and rudder shifted to hard right.
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To stab (a person), causing them to bleed.
Grab him, don't panic, rambo under my jacket
Nap him, splash him, then I'm petrol bath my jacket
Similar: chef, ching, chib, chive, enthrill, foin, gore, gride, jab, job, juke, kebab
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: splosh, slosh, splatter, splattering, spatter, spattering, dab, sprinkle, slush, squish, plash, squelch, swash, slop, dabble, puff
Translations
Every language
noun sound made by an object hitting a liquid
| Español | salpicadura |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 튀기다 twigida, 튀김 twigim |
| 中文 | 濺潑聲 /溅泼声 jiànpō shēng |
| हिन्दी | छपाक chapāk |
| Português | chape, tchibum |
| Français | plouf |
| Deutsch | Platschen |
| Italiano | schizzo, tonfo, sciacquio |
| Română | pleosc |
| Русский | всплеск vsplesk, плеск plesk |
| Tiếng Việt | tùm, ùm, tõm |
noun small amount of liquid
| Español | chorrito, chiringuito, poquito, poco |
|---|
noun impact or impression
| Français | bruit, éclaboussure |
|---|---|
| Italiano | tonfo |
| Русский | шуми́ха šumíxa |
verb to hit or agitate liquid
| Español | chacualear, chapalear, chapaletear, chapotear, salpicar |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | はね散らす hanechirasu, し吹く shibuku |
| 中文 | 濺 /溅 jiàn, 潑 /泼 pō |
| Português | chapinhar |
| Français | asperger, éclabousser |
| Deutsch | platschen, plätschern, pritscheln, spritzen |
| Русский | плеска́ться pleskátʹsja, бры́згаться brýzgatʹsja |
verb to splatter or spread around suddenly
| Português | espalhar |
|---|---|
| Русский | плеска́ть pleskátʹ, бры́згать brýzgatʹ, расплеска́ться raspleskátʹsja |
| Tiếng Việt | tung toé |
verb to create an impact or impression
| Français | faire du bruit |
|---|---|
| Русский | нашуме́ть našumétʹ |
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title = {splash},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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