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drizzle
English
Etymology
Perhaps a back-formation from dryseling, a dissimilated variant of Middle English drysning (“a falling of dew”), from Old English drysnan (“to extinguish”), related to Old English dr?osan (“to fall, to decline”), making it cognate to modern English droze and drowse. Compare also dialectal Swedish drösla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d??z.l/
- Rhymes: -?z?l
- Hyphenation: driz?zle
Verb
drizzle (third-person singular simple present drizzles, present participle drizzling, simple past and past participle drizzled)
- (impersonal) To rain lightly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London, Januarye, Aegloga prima,[1]
- And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend,
- As on your boughes the ysicles depend.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 5,[2]
- When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;
- But for the sunset of my brother’s son
- It rains downright.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London, Januarye, Aegloga prima,[1]
- (cooking, transitive) To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.
- (cooking, transitive) To cover by pouring in this manner.
- (slang) To urinate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (dated) To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.
Translations
Noun
drizzle (countable and uncountable, plural drizzles)
- Light rain.
- (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
- (slang) Water.
- (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
- April 19, 2013,Felicity Cloake, "How to Cook the Perfect Lemon Drizzle Cake" in The Guardian
- Drizzle is not normally good news. Not when it's falling from the sky, not when it's replacing a decent helping of sauce, and especially not when it's found on a menu in close proximity to the words "balsamic vinegar". Deliciously sticky, sweet and sour lemon drizzle cake is the one, and very honourable, exception.
- April 19, 2013,Felicity Cloake, "How to Cook the Perfect Lemon Drizzle Cake" in The Guardian
Derived terms
- drizzly
- drizzler
Translations
Anagrams
- rizzled
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monsoon
English
Etymology
From Portuguese monção and Dutch moesson, from Arabic ???????? (mawsim, “season”), from ??????? (wasama, “to mark, to brand”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /m?n?su?n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /m?n?su?n/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Noun
monsoon (plural monsoons)
- Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season.
- Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions.
- The rains themselves.
- Entire meteorological systems with such characteristics.
Derived terms
- monsoon season
Translations
References
monsoon From the web:
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- what monsoon brings cloudless skies
- what monsoon brings cloudless
- what monsoon is it now
- what monsoon winds do for us
- what monsoon stores are open in ireland
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