Sprinkly
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Light, tending to sprinkle or fall down softly.
"The rain had tapered off to a sprinkly drizzle, Portland's most prevalent weather condition."
- 2 Characterised by sprinkles or sprinkling.
"Humbert's first epiphanic vision of Lolita, for example, is rendered in aquatic, dripping, sprinkly slow motion."
- 3 Subject to being sprinkled on.
"I had rather a sprinkly seat in the bow, but, as we bobbed up and down, I had a good backward look at the town, which, with the ascent of mud in the foreground, looked almost set on a hill."
- 4 Haphazardly and incompletely distributed.
"Mary Richmond, general secretary of the Baltimore Organization Society, was disturbed because "under the name of settlement, the old-fashioned mission, distributing a cheap and sprinkly sort of charity, can do more harm than under the right name.""
- 5 Resembling having been sprinkled with something.
"I have it planned exactly what you look like--very satisfactorily--until I reach the top of your head, and then I AM stuck. I can't decide whether you have white hair or black hair or sort of sprinkly grey hair or maybe none at all."
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- 6 Resembling sprinkles.
"When they are cool, ice them in pretty pastel colours and decorate with interesting sprinkly things. These might include hundreds-and-thousands, sugar flowers, the tops of iced gems (bite the biscuit off first), crystallised violets..."
Example
More examples"The rain had tapered off to a sprinkly drizzle, Portland's most prevalent weather condition."
Etymology
From sprinkle + -y.