{"id":32,"date":"2019-09-07T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/07\/splish\/"},"modified":"2024-03-31T07:54:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:54:35","slug":"splish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/07\/splish\/","title":{"rendered":"Splish"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Can splish<\/i> be used independently of splash<\/i>? Can you splish<\/i> without splash<\/i>?\" This random question was raised while we were driving about yesterday. Let's see what historical dictionaries say:<\/p>\n

Neither splish<\/i> nor splish-splash<\/i> appear in Johnson's dictionary (1755), The Century Dictionary<\/i> (1889-1891), or The New Century Dictionary<\/i> (1940). In those, one can only splash<\/i>.<\/p>\n

In the 1st edition of the Oxford English Dictionary<\/i> (1888-1928), splish-splash<\/i> (and its derived form splishy-splashy<\/i>) is present as a hyphenated, inseparable unit (volume 9\/1, p. 645):<\/p>\n

Splish-splash<\/b>, v. rare.<\/i> [f. Splash<\/span> v.<\/i>1<\/sup>, with usual variation of vowel.] intr.<\/i> To splash repeatedly.
1720<\/b> Swift<\/span> Irish Feast<\/i> 44 The Floor is all wet... While the Water and Sweat, Splish, splash in their pumps. 1834<\/b> Medwin<\/span> Angler in Wales<\/i> I. 160 They went splish-splashing through an almost interminable inundation.<\/span>
So Splishy-splashy<\/b> a<\/i>., sloppy, slushy. rare<\/i>—1<\/sup>. c<\/i> 1850<\/b> Denham Tracts<\/i> (1895) II. 72 A cold, comfortless (splishy-splashy) Sabbath morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Similarly, splish-splash<\/i> is presented succinctly as a single unit in Webster's Third New International Dictionary<\/i> (1981) as both a verb (\"to make a repeated splashing sound\"<\/span>) and a noun (\"a repeated splashing sound\"<\/span>), but there is no separate entry for splish<\/i> alone (p. 2201).<\/p>\n

So it would seem, based on these, that one cannot simply splish<\/i> without the splash<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Can splish be used independently of splash? Can you splish without splash?\" This random question was raised while we were driving about yesterday. Let's see what historical dictionaries say: Neither splish nor splish-splash appear in Johnson's dictionary (1755), The Century Dictionary (1889-1891), or The New Century Dictionary (1940). In those, one can only splash. In … Continue reading Splish<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,28],"tags":[48],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encyclopaedia-fortuita.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}