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sprinkle
English
Etymology
From Middle English sprynklen, sprenkelen, equivalent to sprink +? -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Dutch sprenkelen (“to sprinkle”), German Low German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle; dapple”), German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sp???k?l/
- Rhymes: -??k?l
Verb
sprinkle (third-person singular simple present sprinkles, present participle sprinkling, simple past and past participle sprinkled)
- (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
- And the priest shall […] sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.
- At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.
- (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
- (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
- (intransitive) To rain very lightly outside.
- (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
- having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience
Quotations
- 1893, Edward F. Bigelow (editor and publisher), The Observer: a Medium of Interchange of Observations for all Students and Lovers of Nature, volume IV, number 4, page 114:
- There is no more beautiful object in the still and shady aisles of the wood than a great patch of the deep green hairy cap moss studded and starred by these little roses that are often scattered over it as thickly as the stars sprinkle the sky.
- April 26th, 1899, Memorial Day Oration of General P. McGlashan, printed in 1902 in Addresses delivered before the Confederate Veterans Association of Savannah by that association:
- As I laid him back on the litter he threw out his arms and clasped me around my neck, drew me towards him and kissed me, saying: "Colonel, I love you." [...] Unnumbered instances like this might be recounted did the time permit it. They sprinkle the whole four years as the stars sprinkle the sky.
- 2010, Donald E. MacKay, Love Is Stronger Than Death, page 91:
- [...] she will remember his words and gaze at the stars. One dark night when the stars sprinkle the heavens, she would call out to the stars and ask the same questions her benefactor had asked; perhaps she will be favored with answers.
Derived terms
- besprinkle
- sprinkler
Translations
Noun
sprinkle (plural sprinkles)
- A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
- A light rain shower.
- An aspersorium or utensil for sprinkling.
Synonyms
- (light covering with a sprinkled substance): sprinkling
Derived terms
- sugar sprinkles
Translations
Anagrams
- plinkers, prinkles, splinker
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cloudburst
English
Alternative forms
- cloud-burst
Etymology
cloud +? burst
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kla?d?b?st/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kla?d?b??st/
- Hyphenation: cloud?burst
Noun
cloudburst (plural cloudbursts)
- A sudden heavy rainstorm.
- 1899, Edith Wharton, "A Cup of Cold Water" in The Greater Inclination:
- [B]ut the sound . . . expressed an utter abandonment to grief; not the cloud-burst of some passing emotion, but the slow down-pour of a whole heaven of sorrow.
- 1936 Aug. 17, "Miscellany," Time (retrieved 20 May 2014):
- In Uniontown, Pa., John Walchesky & family rushed from their house when lightning set it afire, rushed in again when a cloudburst put out the blaze.
- 2007 Feb. 25, Norman Howard, "Devotion, chapter 1" (book excerpt), New York Times (retrieved 20 May 2014):
- [H]e walked across the lawn, wet from a fleeting late-afternoon cloudburst, the first rain in a month.
- 1899, Edith Wharton, "A Cup of Cold Water" in The Greater Inclination:
Synonyms
- cloudbust
Translations
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