sprinkle

Meaning of sprinkle

noun
  1. A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
    He decorated the Christmas card with a sprinkle of glitter.
  2. A light rain shower.
  3. An aspersorium or utensil for sprinkling.
verb
  1. To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
    The confectioner sprinkled icing sugar over the cakes.
  2. To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
    The confectioner sprinkled the cakes with icing sugar.
  3. To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
    It sprinkled outside all day long.
  4. To rain very lightly outside.
    It sprinkled very early in the morning.
  5. To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.

Information about sprinkle

  • The plural form of sprinkle is: sprinkles.
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Hyphenation of sprinkle

sprin-kle

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • sprinkle is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

sprinkle synonyms

Meaning scattering:

scattering, sprinkling

Meaning sprinkling:

sprinkling, sparge

Meaning scatter:

scatter, dot, dust, disperse

Meaning splash:

splash, splosh

Meaning spit:

spit, spatter, patter

Meaning sparge:

sparge, besprinkle

Translation of sprinkle

Anagrams of sprinkle

plinkers

Words that rhyme with sprinkle

ankle, crankle, fankle, hankle, prankle, rankle, tankle, twankle, wankle, Trenkle, Bullwinkle, Hinkle, Winkle, antiwrinkle, atinkle, baggyrinkle, baggywrinkle, besprinkle, chinkle, crinkle, dogwinkle, inkle, intersprinkle, jinkle, kinkle, outtinkle, oversprinkle, pennywinkle, periwinkle, pinniewinkle, pinnywinkle, presprinkle, prinkle, resprinkle, skinkle, strinkle, tiggywinkle, tinkle, trinkle, twinkle, uncrinkle, unwrinkle, upsprinkle, winkle, wrinkle, Kunkle, Runkle, crunkle, dunkle, runkle

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