splasher

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splasher

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From splash + -er.

noun splashers

Someone who splashes. They gave her room, all right, especially if her medium happened to be water color, as Judy was a grand splasher and spared neither water nor paint.
dated A guard to keep off splashes from anything; especially, one of the guards over the wheels of a carriage, locomotive, etc. No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.
Similar: splashguard
Multicultural London English, slang A knife used as a weapon. Juice man up with this 15 inch Like, now I got blood on my splasher
Similar: jooka, jooker, nank, shank, bassy, rambo, pokey, chete

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@misc{splasher_2026,
  title = {splasher},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/splasher},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}