Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A drink made of wine and carbonated water.
Wiktionary
- n. a tall, chilled drink, made from white wine and soda water
WordNet 3.0
- n. a mixed drink made of wine mixed with a sparkling water
Etymologies
- German, from spritzen, to spray, from Middle High German sprützen; see sper- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We especially like the toning spritzer, which is great for freshening up on hot days.”
“Second -, third -, or fourth-ing the "spritzer" identification.”
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“Some kind of spritzer would be appropriate, I think.”
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“Since meeting Jenny at her hotel in Basel, I had been puzzling at her eerie calm in the face of death, struggling to replace the image of the glass of spritzer she had been holding that day with a plastic cup of sodium pentobarbital.”
“Simple juice spritzer: Another refreshing low-calorie beverage is a simple real-juice spritzer, Blatner says., Add a shot glass full 1½ ounces of your favorite juice such as grapefruit, pineapple, orange or pomegranate juice to eight ounces of club soda or sparkling water, she says.”
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“La Champagneria -- Upon entering the cozy confines of La Champagneria, you should immediately notice -- apart from the gorgeous jamon iberico hanging from the ceiling -- the ambiguous red wine spritzer that everyone appears to be drinking.”
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“A call for civility in a world where each party now feels the deep wound of having had its successful candidates delegitimized is likely to be as successful as ordering a Manischewitz spritzer in a Beirut bar.”
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“Now just strain and apply liquid lightly to dry hair with a spritzer bottle, leave in or fully douse after shampooing hair, let it sit for 5 minutes then rinse well and style as desired.”
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“Luckily, Miss Eco Etiquette is more a Cascade hops than a white wine spritzer kind of gal.”
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“Gino could get a phone number from a waitress, a stewardess on a two-day layover, or a perfume counter spritzer girl before you could say“Casanova.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spritzer’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Cocktails: Drink Up. The Night is Young!
Have some liquor to help the orange juice go down.
zombie, yellow bird, white russian, whiskey sour, vodka tonic, tom collins, tom and jerry, toasted almond, tequila sunrise, stinger, spritzer, sloe gin fizz and 62 more...
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words from the German
kindergarten, sturm und drang, schadenfreude, zeppelin, blitzkreig, blitz, krieg, panzer, angst, nazi, zeitgeist, doppelganger and 107 more...
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Bottle of Red, Bottle of White
Wine types.
pinot, traminette, Chablis, Chardonnay, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, vermouth, vin jaune, hock, malmsey, Liebfraumilch, Moselle and 82 more...
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