spritz
/spɹɪts/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of spritzer (“spray bottle”).
noun
Synonym of spritzer (“drink made with white wine and soda water”).
noun
A cocktail consisting of prosecco, soda water, and bitters.
Example Sentences
- "Fish is good with a spritz of lemon juice."
- "It's hard to keep hair in a specific hairdo when you just spritz only a little bit of hair spray."
- "“Sometimes,” he hastened to explain, looking at Khadijah and me, stroking his beard, “the fruit at Gaia is slightly rotten. That's the dark side of organic. Everything isn't spritzed with poisons to make it look neat.”"
- "Aperol spritz"
- "To build a spritz worth drinking, direct your attention first to the sparkling wine, then the aperitif bottle. In the 3:2:1 formula, sparkling wine takes up the most real estate, and most spritzes are being topped with garbage bubbles."
- "Friday morning found the lagoon city doing what it does best: looking gorgeous and slightly unreal as it played host to thousands of tourists who posed in silver-prowed gondolas, chugged mid-morning spritzes or simply wilted in the muggy heat."
Etymology
Cognate with various Germanic counterparts, including German spritzen, Pennsylvania German schpritze, Yiddish שפּריץ (shprits, noun), and Yiddish שפּריצן (shpritsn, verb), and variously said (by various sources) to be borrowed from any of them; spritzer is said by some sources to be borrowed from German Spritzer, rather than being an English agent noun derived from this verb, but by surface analysis the connection is clear, even if sources do not adduce the evidence for the diachrony.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: spritz, Gespritzter