drizzle
/ˈdɹɪzəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.15 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We had planned a picnic for Joe's birthday, but it ended up drizzling all day."
- "And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend, As on your boughes the ysicles depend."
- "When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew; But for the sunset of my brother’s son It rains downright."
- "The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it."
- "The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil."
- "Drizzle with oil and a few squeezes from a lemon wedge or two and serve at once, with remaining lemon wedges on the side."
Etymology
Perhaps a back-formation from dryseling, a dissimilated variant of Middle English drysning (“a falling of dew”), from , related to Old English drēosan (“to fall, to decline”), making it cognate to modern English droze and drowse. Compare also dialectal Swedish drösla.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: drysning, drysnan