sprinkly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised by sprinkles or sprinkling.
adj
adj
Resembling having been sprinkled with something.
adj
Example Sentences
- "The rain had tapered off to a sprinkly drizzle, Portland's most prevalent weather condition."
- "Humbert's first epiphanic vision of Lolita, for example, is rendered in aquatic, dripping, sprinkly slow motion."
- "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."
- "Mary Richmond, general secretary of the Baltimore Organization Society, was disturbed because "under the name of settlement, the old-fashioned mission, distributing a cheap and sprinkly sort of charity, can do more harm than under the right name.""
- "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."
- "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..."
Etymology
From sprinkle + -y.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more sprinkly (comparative)
most sprinkly (superlative)