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Sprinkle
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
"He decorated the Christmas card with a sprinkle of glitter."
- 2 the act of sprinkling or splashing water wordnet
- 3 A light rain shower.
- 4 a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby wordnet
- 5 An aspersorium or utensil for sprinkling.
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- 6 A small hard piece of sugar and starch, or chocolate, used to decorate cakes etc.
- 1 To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance). transitive
"The confectioner sprinkled icing sugar over the cakes."
- 2 scatter with liquid; wet lightly wordnet
- 3 To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it. transitive
"The confectioner sprinkled the cakes with icing sugar."
- 4 cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force wordnet
- 5 To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically. intransitive
"It sprinkled outside all day long."
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- 6 distribute loosely wordnet
- 7 To rain very lightly outside. intransitive
"It sprinkled very early in the morning."
- 8 rain gently wordnet
- 9 To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify. transitive
"having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience"
Etymology
From Middle English sprenkelen, sprynklen, from Middle Dutch sprenkelen, equivalent to sprink + -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Dutch sprenkelen (“to sprinkle”), German Low German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle; dapple”), German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle”).
From Middle English sprenkelen, sprynklen, from Middle Dutch sprenkelen, equivalent to sprink + -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Dutch sprenkelen (“to sprinkle”), German Low German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle; dapple”), German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle”).
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