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say it: splash
splash is a verb and noun meaning "cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force". It is pronounced /ˈsplæʃ/ — splash. It carries 13 recorded senses.
mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered
“The mountain was splashed with snow”
soil or stain with a splashed liquid
a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
“he made a great splash and then disappeared”
a small quantity of something moist or liquid
“a dab of paint”
“a splatter of mud”
“just a splash of whiskey”
the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for splash come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.