splash

splash [splash]

vt.

[intens. extension of PLASH²]

1. to cause (a liquid substance) to scatter and fall in drops or blobs

2. to dash or scatter a liquid substance, mud, etc. on, so as to wet or soil

3. to cause to splash a liquid [to splash one's feet in puddles]

4. to make (one's way) by splashing

5. to mark or spot by or as by splashing [a glade splashed with sunlight]

6. to display conspicuously [scandal splashed all over the front page]

vi.

1. to dash or scatter a liquid substance about

2. to fall, strike, or scatter with a splash or splashes [rain splashing against the window]

3. to move with splashes

n.

1. the act or sound of splashing

2. a mass of splashed water, mud, etc.

3. a spot or mark made by or as by splashing

4. a patch of color, light, etc.

5. a small amount (of soda water, etc.)

6. Informal a conspicuous or ostentatious display

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make a splash

Informal to attract great, often brief attention by doing something striking or ostentatious

splasher

n.