(v. t.) To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
(v. t.) To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.
(v. i.) To strike and dash about water, mud, etc.; to dash in such a way as to spatter.
(n.) Water, or water and dirt, thrown upon anything, or thrown from a puddle or the like; also, a spot or daub, as of matter which wets or disfigures.
(n.) A noise made by striking upon or in a liquid.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Financial Services Authority today shut the door on so-called liar loans and warned that the days of homeowners remortgaging to splash out on holidays and pay off credit card debts may soon be over.
(2) KSmythe Make a splash in the cold: Bergen, Norway Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Getty Images Bergen, even when the fjords are too wet and dreary to visit, is still a relaxing destination for a winter break in Norway.
(3) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
(4) His story - which he was led through on Monday by his lawyer - is that he was outside his house cleaning Sadie, his dog, when the girls came down the road; that he took Holly and Jessica into his house because Holly had a nosebleed; took them upstairs into the bathroom where Holly sat on the edge of the full bath and he gave her tissues to staunch it; took Holly into his bedroom, to sit on the bed while Jessica used the toilet, took Holly back into the bathroom where she could finish cleaning up her nosebleed; accidentally slipped beside Holly and the full bath, and heard a splash; froze in panic; placed his hand over Jessica's mouth because she was screaming, 'You pushed her'.
(5) With the other half, they want the front page and, while they may dream of a splash on the lines of "Minister makes inspiring call to revive Labour", they know their article will be buried on page 94 and swiftly forgotten if it contains nothing more dramatic than that.
(6) Scores of sopping-wet pedestrians have complained to police after being splashed when motorists drove through puddles, figures show.
(7) Additionally, the Schmidt-Furlow investigators looked at instances where female interrogators had fondled prisoners, or pretended to splash menstrual blood upon them.
(8) The implication was that splashing out on a decent birthday present for your partner or having the family over for Christmas lunch could affect your chances of getting a mortgage.
(9) The rioting in Lashio started on Tuesday after reports that a Muslim man had splashed petrol on a Buddhist woman and set her on fire.
(10) But if Johnson's monuments suffer from the columnist's love of making a splash, his mayoralty has been more impressive when it comes to things that are barely visible, or about taking stuff away rather than adding it.
(11) The clubs in the bottom six splashed out £90m, more than half of total Premier League spending.
(12) In a story splashed across every major local newspaper, Rajab was accused of tweeting a photo that differed (albeit only slightly) from the official photo of the deceased released by the interior ministry.
(13) Dressing to impress Rather than splash out a fortune on a designer party dress, why not hire one from WishWantWear.com – it's still expensive but probably better than maxing out a credit card.
(14) 8.09pm BST 8 min: Alonso splashes the ball into the box.
(15) The patient's daughter presented a typical background of IP and dyschromic splashed lesions.
(16) Retrospective media analysis would probably show that the term welfare was used increasingly during the 1990s often in a derogatory manner – a 1993 Sunday Times splash about lone mothers being "wedded to welfare" being a typical example.
(17) The Daily Record , doing what it has always done best, sent their man in for an overnight stay and then splashed his report across its front page.
(18) However, this did include £14.99 splashed out on a "QPR history book" in September 2007.
(19) Tim Kirkham , of foreign currency specialists HiFX, blamed the euro's weakness on EU leaders' failure to agree when their new bailout fund can start putting capital into failing eurozone banks: Berlin has insisted that the Supervisor needs to be up and running and be effective before the ESM can start to splash its cash.
(20) You could build your own cheaply – you'll need two chambers with a vent, hatch and removable seat – but if you want something more attractive you will have to splash out.
Splashy
Definition:
(a.) Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The UK's biggest pay TV provider, buoyed by subscriptions that are still rising in the economic downturn, is in bullish mood, spending money while competitors retrench, as exemplified by its splashy 1980s-style advertising for the drama adaptation of Martina Cole's The Take.
(2) It will be the latest improbable chapter in the life story of a man raised as an Eisenhower Republican, who fought as a patriot in Vietnam and made his name in Hollywood writing such splashy, amoral screenplays as Scarface for Al Pacino, before becoming an Oscar-winning, Chávez-admiring Buddhist whom the Observer described as "one of the few committed men of the left working in mainstream American cinema" .
(3) The first single, Slow Slow, features a tumble of words over cool jazzy guitar chords, video game bleeps, nimble bass and splashy drums, plus a sample of Run DMC circa Peter Piper.
(4) The Twitter IPO's financial impact – for all of its splashy billions – will barely even reach past the golden gate of San Francisco .
(5) John Keats described it as a “splashy, rainy, misty ... floody, muddy slipshod County”.
(6) "China wants to have good relations with both Koreas … They don't want to go too far with a great splashy meeting [with the South] while things are still off-kilter in the North Korean relationship.
(7) Vancouver Whitecaps , who like Philadelphia started the day with two picks in the top ten, took the athletic, left-footed central defender Christian Dean, as their first pick at number three, while New England, who'd made their own splashy trade for last year's number one spot (where they took eventual regular starter Andrew Farrell), used their fourth pick to take the first attacking player of the day, Georgetown forward Steve Neumann.
(8) I did not want to be in a big splashy romantic comedy with Cher."
(9) It seems that way, based on a nugget from CNN about a new, high profile bus tour planned by Romney next month: But beginning August 10th, Romney will ramp up his campaign operation with a splashy four-day bus tour targeting the largest media markets in several of the states that will decide the November election, CNN has learned.
(10) (He described his piano playing as "splashy and erratic", but he always enjoyed playing for his own pleasure.)
(11) "Cash-rich and with a strong appetite for splashy overseas assets, Qatari [investment] vehicles have lately outshone their counterparts from the region and are projected to carry on with their rapid expansion across the real estate world," said the report by real estate consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
(12) What was important was not splashy plot twists – be it car crash, baby swap, lesbian snog or corpse under the patio – but how characters processed such incidents through the medium of gossip.
(13) Instead, the development that reveals most about Facebook's current mindset was not a splashy acquisition or a media deal: it was the accidental emergence of Facebook Lite – a leaner version of the site that is currently being tested in some countries.
(14) This splashy, gregarious mash-up of a show sees Franzén and fellow dancers in routines that embrace jazz, jump jive and street, as well as ballroom and contemporary dance.
(15) Foxtons North America, as the offshoot eventually called itself, had its own Minis, almost 400 staff, and splashy advertising – such as a giant billboard above a tunnel entrance on the road back to New York City from the smart resort of East Hampton.
(16) This splashy option for two people is only half an hour away by public transport, although its sleepy Søllerød Lake setting makes that hard to believe.
(17) There's the Bible, for starters – the relevant bits can be found in splashy opening chapter.
(18) It would be unilateral, reckless and splashy – trademark Trump.
(19) The dark side to all this splashy success has been diminishing support for small or struggling dance talent.
(20) Local media reported that the leaders’ placing their hands on the globe “officially activated the centre and launched a splashy welcome video”.