sprinkly

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Light, tending to sprinkle or fall down softly.

   • The rain had tapered off to a sprinkly drizzle, Portland's most prevalent weather condition.
2. 2

   Characterised by sprinkles or sprinkling.

   • Humbert's first epiphanic vision of Lolita, for example, is rendered in aquatic, dripping, sprinkly slow motion.
3. 3

   Subject to being sprinkled on.

   • I had rather a sprinkly seat in the bow, but, as we bobbed up and down, I had a good backward look at the town, which, with the ascent of mud in the foreground, looked almost set on a hill.
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   1. 4

      Haphazardly and incompletely distributed.

   2. 5

      Resembling having been sprinkled with something.

      • I have it planned exactly what you look like--very satisfactorily--until I reach the top of your head, and then I AM stuck. I can't decide whether you have white hair or black hair or sort of sprinkly grey hair or maybe none at all.
   3. 6

      Resembling sprinkles.

      • When they are cool, ice them in pretty pastel colours and decorate with interesting sprinkly things. These might include hundreds-and-thousands, sugar flowers, the tops of iced gems (bite the biscuit off first), crystallised violets...
      • Christmas cookies and lemonade I made it safe and sound to my godmother's house in time to frost cookies and dip them in those little sprinkly things...

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