Crossword clues for splashy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Splashy \Splash"y\, a. Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1727, "full of puddles," from splash (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "sensational" first attested 1836. Related: Splashily; splashiness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Relating to making splashes or the sound of splashing. 2 showy, ostentatious. 3 Splashed with color.
WordNet
adj. marked by conspicuous display; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad" [syn: showy]
covered patchily; often used in combination; "waves dabbled with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with grease" [syn: dabbled, spattered, splashed, splattered]
[also: splashiest, splashier]
Usage examples of "splashy".
A big, splashy pool of red lilies, bold and fragrant that would come back year after year and remind her how lucky she was.
He stumbled as he barged into a large room and was immediately assaulted with a suffocating splurge of smell, screamy noises, and splashy lights.
He took her transing as fast as the computer could figure to Earth orbit, sent a coded recognition signal and went down under power, making a splashy landing, coming from free fall to a powered halt two inches off the pad, at a military field tucked almost unseen into the side of a mountain in the Italian Alps.
Up at the Falls, she and the Blowfish people had some big splashy affair planned for the media, involving Canadians and Indians.
Mexican television in America broadcasts not dry notices of immigration reform or Mexican consulate seminars, but splashy Jerry Springer-like talk shows, where Chicanas with dyed blond hair, breast implants and bare navels wiggle in the audience and chatter in hot tubs, unlike anything that used to be aired in the village plaza in Mexico.
Now she leads her herd of oldsters, shuffling and bobbing solemnly in their splashy playclothes, toward a link fence and a new phase of their five-dollar pilgrimage.
The lush green of winter, with its surfeit of magenta and salmon bougainvillea, had erupted anew in a splashy show of crocuses, hyacinths, and flowering plum trees.
The one on Lark's brow trembled, casting splashy aurae around the two Rothen till he finally had to peel it back.
The one on Lark’s brow trembled, casting splashy aurae around the two Rothen till he finally had to peel it back.
From the humble beginnings of the storefront on Hart Street, to the respectable but by no means splashy domicile off Beniteau, Assumption was finally going to get a grand church building.
Splashy billboards touted Cennan toothpastes, radios, and hair tonic.
Bliss Savoy Forrest had a splashy diamond pin created from the postmarital jewelry.
For some reason, Metaxas chose a pugnosed redhead with splashy freckles and big feet.
A big boxy float negotiates the corner on to the bridge, then one stacked with multicolored bales, and the next is a four-meter-long model of a starship, very light because it's being carried on poles on the shoulders of just four men, and behind them another big cardboard imitation crate, planking sketched on it in splashy lines of black paint .