sprinkle

Plural: sprinkles

Noun

• a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
• the act of sprinkling or splashing water
• A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
• A light rain shower.
• An aspersorium or utensil for sprinkling.
• A small hard piece of sugar and starch, or chocolate, used to decorate cakes etc.

Verb

• distribute loosely
• cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
• rain gently
  • "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"
• scatter with liquid; wet lightly
  • "Sprinkle the lawn"
• To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
• To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
• To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
• To rain very lightly outside.
• To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.

Examples

• "He decorated the Christmas card with a sprinkle of glitter."
• "It sprinkled outside all day long."
• "It sprinkled very early in the morning."
• "The confectioner sprinkled icing sugar over the cakes."
• "The confectioner sprinkled the cakes with icing sugar."

Synonyms

besprinkle, disperse, dot, dust, jimmy, patter, pitter-patter, scatter, scattering, sift, sparge, spatter, spit, splash, splosh, sprinkling