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Answer for the clue "A small quantity of something moist or soft ", 6 letters:
splash

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Word definitions for splash in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Splash \Splash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Splashed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Splashing .] [Akin to plash.] To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash. To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1715 (intransitive); 1722 (transitive), probably an alteration of plash with an intensive s- . Related: Splashed ; splashing . Splash-board attested from 1826. Splash-down (n.) in the spacecraft sense is attested from 1961.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
is a dance and vocal girl group created by MORADO COMPANY. Consisting of girls of elementary and junior high school students in Japan. It is used as the activity aimed at community interaction and contribution to the slogan "Tohoku sources unit".

Usage examples of splash.

And saw a stream of animals, hoofed, padded, clawed and dashing, splashing through the ponds for Various Aquatic Birds, setting the night aflight - all of them making for the rear gate that opened to the Tiroler Garten.

The fountain erupted from the agate pool and splashed Lelila from the top of her head to the ends of her hair.

A number of other, similar beings moved leisurely in the pools, splashing the shallow water on their skins or burrowing down into the agates till only their eyes and trunk-ends showed.

Spilled coals were scattered across the paving slabs and atop the rumpled velvet, burning holes in the rich pile, and the glass alembic was now a jagged splash of greenish shards.

Rostov threw his cloak over his shoulders, shouted to Lavrushka to follow with the things, and- now slipping in the mud, now splashing right through it- set off with Ilyin in the lessening rain and the darkness that was occasionally rent by distant lightning.

Drops landed in the aquarium, splashed, and marked the front of his shirt with further droplets.

The stench of tar, the creak of timbers, the splash of the swell of an ice-cold sea, the incessant rocking all told him he was still a prisoner on the Azhkendi vessel, sailing ever farther away from Astasia by the hour.

In Bradwell, Jane returned to her day school after the Easter holiday, Gerald continued to regard me with mute adoration, and spring flowers and shrubs began to bring great splashes of color to the green and brown gardens of Silverwood, first the daffodils, then the tulips, the aubrietia tumbling over dwarf walls, and the camellias with great blossoms of pink and red.

As his blows avulsed her scalp, her blood had splashed the pews, yet she had staggered onward, until at last she stumbled to her knees, conquered at his feet.

The bakery now is its own room next to the main kitchen, and there are windows and an outside door and industrial-strength fans, but in July and August pretty much everyone but me has to get out of there and splash water on themselves and have a sit-down.

The water splashed down his legs to his hooves and flowed on out of the baobab tree, tapering off as its volume diminished.

What splashed down through the aquamarine depths appeared to be a slender Hawaiian girl, clad in a bikini of water lilies.

Then he started running, slo-mo steps through the water, thrashing and splashing as the Blimp closed in.

Downstream from him, Cocke and Bonham would splash across Bull Run, using the fords in front of them, and attack.

Let the fliers watch fuel economy and not botch their navigation, and there would be no splashes.