drizzle
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drizzle
- /ˈdɹɪzəl/
- [ˈdɹɪzl̩]
Rhymes with -ɪzəl
Where it comes from
Perhaps a back-formation from dryseling, a dissimilated variant of Middle English drysning (“a falling of dew”), from Northumbrian Old English drysnan (“to extinguish”), related to Old English drēosan (“to fall, to decline”), making it cognate to modern English droze and drowse. Compare also dialectal Swedish drösla.
verb drizzles · drizzling · drizzled
- To rain lightly. We had planned a picnic for Joe's birthday, but it ended up drizzling all day.
- To shed slowly in minute drops or particles. And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend, As on your boughes the ysicles depend.
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To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.
The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.
Similar: dribble
- To cover by pouring in this manner. The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.
- To urinate. She'll be right back, had to drizzle before we leave.
- To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling. She found that all those ladies who did not play at cards occupied their fingers with parfilage.[...] Here, the work was called drizzling. Ladies begged their friends to give them pieces of the gold lace used on uniforms and the gold tassels of sword-belts, they picked out the metal threads, and by
noun drizzles
- Light rain. Up here, it's a 'dreich' day with steady drizzle. Deep drainage channels either side of the track are already more like streams: Rannoch Moor is a wet place.
- Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle.
- Water. Stop drinking all of my drizzle!
- Something that is drizzled. The warm apple tart, made to order, had a definitively crisp shell. Its filling of apples was tender and sweet, and the drizzle of caramel rum sauce added sophistication.
- A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner. The rest of the day is spent trying to concentrate on ingredient labels, ordering supplies, baking some fairy cakes for a hen party and two lemon drizzles, one for a new baby and one for an old dear's birthday.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: mizzle, moisten, cloudy, rain, mist, fog, squirt, dark, brown, drip, sprinkle, spritz, mistle, bedrizzle, rain down, trickle
Translations
Every language
verb to rain lightly
| Español | lloviznar, chispear, pringar, pintear, garuar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 毛毛雨 máomáoyǔ |
| हिन्दी | फुहार phuhār |
| Kiswahili | nyunya |
| Português | chuviscar, garoar |
| Français | bruiner, pleuvioter, grainasser |
| Deutsch | nieseln |
| Italiano | piovigginare |
| Ελληνικά | ψιχαλίζει psichalízei, ψιλοβρέχει psilovréchei |
| Română | bura, țârâi |
| Русский | мороси́ть morosítʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | phùn |
| العربية | رَذَّ raḏḏa, بَغَشَ baḡaša |
noun light rain
| Español | llovizna, chilchi, chilche, cilampa, garúa, jarina |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 이슬비 iseulbi |
| 日本語 | 霧雨 kirisame, 時雨 shigure, 小雨 kosame |
| 中文 | 細雨 /细雨 xìyǔ, 毛毛雨 máomaoyǔ, 小雨 xiǎoyǔ |
| हिन्दी | फुहार phuhār, झींसी jhīnsī |
| Kiswahili | rasharasha, manyunyu |
| Português | chuvisco, garoa, caruja |
| Français | bruine, crachin, grainasse |
| Deutsch | Nieselregen, Sprühregen |
| Italiano | pioggerella, pioviggine |
| Ελληνικά | ψιχάλισμα psichálisma, ψιλόβροχο psilóvrocho, ψιχάλες psicháles |
| Română | burniță |
| Русский | ме́лкий дождь mélkij doždʹ, морося́щий дождь morosjáščij doždʹ, и́зморось ízmorosʹ, мо́рось mórosʹ, до́ждик dóždik |
| العربية | رَذَاذ raḏāḏ, بَغْشَة baḡša, غَبْيَة ḡabya |
| עברית | טיפטוף tiftuf |
noun (physics, weather) numerous small and uniformly dispersed water drops
| Deutsch | Nieselregen, Sprühregen |
|---|---|
| Русский | и́зморось ízmorosʹ |
noun (slang) water
| Français | flotte |
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Talk about this word "drizzle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/drizzle. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. drizzle. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/drizzle "drizzle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/drizzle.Cite this
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title = {drizzle},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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