Plash

[58] 'Plash' was, in later editions, altered to 'Pluck.'

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

Sadly for their writers' social ambitions, and for the future dreams of "Dame Antonia," a wasp, a bosom, a medically attentive mouth and the paparazzi skills of the Plash girls ensure that the captain of a British destroyer has to come and provide the finishing touch to the plot.

Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

Sadly for their writers' social ambitions, and for the future dreams of "Dame Antonia," a wasp, a bosom, a medically attentive mouth and the paparazzi skills of the Plash girls ensure that the captain of a British destroyer has to come and provide the finishing touch to the plot.

Hi-pri spy-guy here 2009

Plash, splash, plash, splash, were the only sounds we heard from the commencement of the march until we found the bomas occupying the only dry spots along the line of march.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Here you are: Packthread, Pastime, Pin -- there's a lot about Pin -- Plash.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917 Various

Plash ... plash ... the weave of sea fern beat with the tide against the sunken steps.

Two Selves 1923

Plash-Goo lived in the plains, there dwelt the dwarf whose name was

Tales of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

In a thatched cottage of enormous size, so vast that we might consider it a palace, but only a cottage in the style of its building, its timbers and the nature of its interior, there lived Plash-Goo.

Tales of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

Plash-Goo shot over the edge and for some way further, out towards Space, like a stone; then he began to fall.

Tales of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

And the dwarf though briefly squat was broader than may be dreamed, beyond all breadth of man, and stronger than men may know; strength in its very essence dwelt in that little frame, as a spark in the heart of a flint: but to Plash-Goo he was no more than mis-shapen, bearded and squat, a thing that dared to defy all natural laws by being more broad than long.

Tales of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917