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Plashing is a real word. But much of Wodehouse, as Orwell points out is a decade or several decades earlier in style than the publish dates of 1930s.
It's an exaggeration of how some upper class "Public School" people talk. I think there are at least 3 Public Schools in England that should be closed because of the number of sociopaths, but that's a subject for elsewhere.
Even in 1970s BBC I met some people that seemed like escapees from a Wodehouse novel.
Yes, some old books have some very offensive words. But so do some modern books and there are books I think wholly offensive and depraved but I wouldn't ban them. I'd not give them to anyone either. Some are highly acclaimed by some people.
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