splashy

From splash + -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsplæʃi/

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• Rhymes: -æʃi

splashy (comparative splashier, superlative splashiest)

1. Relating to making splashes or the sound of splashing.
2. Full of dirty water; muddy and wet.
   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter II, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 65:

     The light was yet there; shining dim, but constant, through the rain. […] It led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog; which would have been impassable in winter, and was splashy and shaking even now, in the height of summer.

   • 1914, The Association Monthly, volume 7, page 254:

     'Cross splashy field where wild things grow, / Past shining reeds in knee-deep tarns, […]

3. (figurative)
   1. Ostentatious, showy.

      His splashy car was supposed to show his wealth, but instead it showed his poor taste.

      • 2023 May 1, David Segal, “In Transylvania, anyone with $200 can live like a king. (Well, one specific king.)”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 June 2023:

        Which suggests that the man in the middle of what will be the planet’s splashiest shindig this weekend far prefers the stillness and privacy he finds about 1,500 miles away from London, on unpaved roads and rugged woods near the Carpathian Mountains.

   2. Splashed with colour.

• splashily
• splashiness

• plashy