sprinkle

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It now began to sprinkle, and we hastened back to the hotel.

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  1. transitive verb To scatter in drops or particles: sprinkled sugar on the cereal.
  2. transitive verb To scatter drops or particles on.
  3. transitive verb To intersperse with something as if by scattering: sprinkled his speech with quotations.

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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

teaspoonful ·  handful ·  pinch ·  trickle ·  shower ·  admixture ·  smattering ·  speck ·  sprinkler ·  streak ·  dash ·  plenty

Used in the same contextWord Family

sprinkle:   sprinkling ·  sprinkled ·  sprinkles
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English sprenklen, perhaps of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin.

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  1. Early modern English sprenkle, sprenkyll, from Middle English sprenkelen, sprynklen, springgolen (= Middle Dutch sprinckelen, sprenckelen, Dutch sprenkelen = German sprenkeln), sprinkle; freq. of Middle English sprengen, from Anglo-Saxon sprengan, causal of springan, sprincan, spring: see spreng and spring. Cf. sprink.
  2. from Middle English sprynkil, sprenkill, sprenkylle (cf. Middle High German G. sprengel); from the verb.
 

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/ˈsprɪŋkl/
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