splasher
nounEtymology From splash + -er.
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Someone who splashes.
- 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.1915, Nell Speed, Molly Brown's Orchard Home:
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Dated A guard to keep off splashes from anything; especially, one of the guards over the wheels of a carriage, locomotive, etc.
- 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.1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:
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Multicultural London English, Slang A knife used as a weapon.
- Juice man up with this 15 inch Like, now I got blood on my splasher2020 August 13, Blacz, “TwentyTwo”, 1:21–1:26: