Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

splasher

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English

Syllables: splash-er
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Someone who splashes.

noun

A guard to keep off splashes from anything; especially, one of the guards over the wheels of a carriage, locomotive, etc.

Dated

noun

A knife used as a weapon.

Slang

Example Sentences

"They gave her room, all right, especially if her medium happened to be water color, as Judy was a grand splasher and spared neither water nor paint."
"No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher."
"Juice man up with this 15 inch Like, now I got blood on my splasher"

Etymology

From splash + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: splash

Usage

Dated
Slang

Inflected Forms

splashers (plural)

Synonyms

splashguard jooka jooker nank shank bassy rambo pokey chete

Questions

What does splasher mean?: Someone who splashes.
Where does splasher come from?: From splash + -er.

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