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Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale. Shak. Ashy pale, pale as ashes. Shak.

See Basyle.

Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly.

Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. [Colloq.]

ling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow.

A golf club like the iron, but with a shorter head, slightly more lofted, used chiefly for short approaches.

Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash.

Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy. "Plashy fens." Milton. "The plashy earth." Wordsworth.

Wet and dirty; slushy. [Prov. Eng.]

Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.

Easily squashed; soft.

Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash. [Prov. Eng.]

Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.

Watery; damp; soft. "Washy ooze." Milton.

or substance; -- originally said of liquids. Fig., weak-minded; spiritless. A weak wishy-washy man who had hardly any mind of his own. A. Trollope.

Trashy talk. [Obs.] Ascham.

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

of a chasm. Also Fig. "The brink of vice." Bp. Porteus. "The brink of ruin." Burke. The plashy brink of weedy lake. Bryant.

alue of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar. Dime novel, a novel, commonly sensational and trashy, which is sold for a dime, or ten cents.

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer. [Eng.]