1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Sprinkling

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

n. A small amount or quantity; a modicum.

n. A small quantity scattered or sparsely distributed.

v. Present participle of sprinkle.

n. The action of the verb to sprinkle.

n. A small amount of (some liquid, powder or other fine substance) that is sprinkled on to something.

n. A light shower of rain.

n. The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles.

n. A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles.

n. Hence, a moderate number or quantity distributed like separate drops, or as if scattered like drops.

n. The act of one who sprinkles, in any sense of the word; aspersion.

n. A small quantity falling in distinct drops or parts, or coming moderately: as, a sprinkling of rain or snow.

n. A small amount scattered here and there, as if sprinkled.

n. In bookbinding, the operation of scattering a shower of fine drops of color on the trimmed edges of the leaves to produce a mottled effect.

n. a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby

n. the act of sprinkling or splashing water

n. a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly

n. the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)

""Your sprinkling is all wrong," he complained next."

Words that are more generic or abstract

rain shower shower watering small indefinite quantity small indefinite amount

Words with the same meaning

aspersion

sprinkle

Words with the same terminal sound

inkling tinkling twinkling wrinkling