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Definition: Splashed |
SplashedAdjective1. (of a fluid) having been propelled about in flying drops or masses; "with clothes wet by splashed water". 2. Covered patchily; often used in combination; "waves dabbled with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with grease". 3. Spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "splashed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: SplashedSynonyms: bespattered (adj), besplashed (adj), dabbled (adj), spattered (adj), splashy (adj), splattered (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Splashed |
| English words defined with "splashed": dabbled ♦ glimmering, glimmery ♦ moon-splashed ♦ plash ♦ spatter, spattered, splash, splashy, splatter, splattered, splosh, sprinkle, swash. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "splashed": MOLD-MAKER HELPER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What a time we had; splashed through bogs, ate like hogs, slept like logs (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Preliminary design model undergoing seakeeping tests at the David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, Maryland, circa 1947. This is an early version of the CVA-58 design, without catapult sponsons. Note the folding smokestacks in the "up" position and large amount of water splashed out around the bow. Aircraft models on the flight deck appear to represent a notional heavy attack bomber. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Red" by Michelle Kwajafa Commentary: "Red paint splashed on sculptures outside washington dc's union station." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | There was a noise of curtainrings running back along the rods, of water being splashed in the basins |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Hamburger patties splashed and hissed in the grease, and the potatoes bubbled |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Splashed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 65.00% of the time. "Splashed" is used about 260 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 65% | 169 | 23,972 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 33.46% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.54% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 260 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "splashed": get splashed with mud. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "splashed": graffiti-splashed, magenta-splashed, moon-splashed, mud-splashed, paint-splashed, rainbow-splashed, star-splashed, sun-splashed, water-splashed. | |
Containing "splashed": pink-splashed-white. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
splashed | 20 |
cum splashed teen | 7 |
cum splashed | 3 |
cum splashed tit | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "splashed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 飞溅 (splash, splashing, sputter, Sputtered, sputtering). (various references) | |
German | geplatscht (plashed), bespritzte (dabbled, spattered), angespritzt. (various references) | |
Greek | γίνομαι λούτσα (get splashed). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מותז (cut off, severed, sprinkled). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gebyuran (water splashed out). (various references) | |
Italian | inzaccherare (get splashed with mud, splash with mud). (various references) | |
Korean | 튀기는 (Flipped, fried, spattered). (various references) | |
Manx | spreiht (outspread, sprayed, sprinkled), skeollit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ashedsplay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Splashed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sploshed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "splashed" (pronounced spla"sht) |
| 4 | -l a" sh t | clashed, flashed, lashed, slashed. |
| 3 | -a" sh t | abashed, bashed, cashed, crashed, dashed, gashed, hashed, mashed, smashed, stashed, thrashed, trashed, unabashed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-l-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: hapless, hassled, plashed, plashes, slashed. | |
-2 letters: alephs, dashes, hasped, hassel, hassle, lapsed, lapses, lashed, lashes, padles, pashed, pashes, passed, passel, pedals, phased, phases, pleads, sadhes, saleps, sashed, selahs, sepals, shades, shaled, shales, shaped, shapes, sheals, shleps, spades, spales, splash. | |
-3 letters: aleph, apses, ashed, ashes, assed, dahls, dales, deals, deash, dhals, ephas, hades, haled. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-l-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: asphodels. | |
+2 letters: slapdashes. | |
+3 letters: dealerships, diplophases, leaderships, sleepyheads. | |
+4 letters: hospitalised, paddlefishes, psychedelias. | |
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