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sprinklen.1

Brit. /ˈsprɪŋkl/, U.S. /ˈsprɪŋkəl/
Forms:

α. Middle English sprynkil, Middle English–1500s sprynkill, late Middle English sprinkyll, late Middle English sprynkle, late Middle English–1500s spryncle, 1500s sprinkil, 1500s sprinkill, 1500s sprynkell, 1500s sprynkull, 1500s–1600s sprinckle, 1500s–1600s sprincle, 1500s–1600s sprinkell, 1500s– sprinkle.

β. late Middle English sprenkle, late Middle English sprenkyl, late Middle English sprenkylle, 1500s sprenkyll, 1500s sprencle.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Apparently partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Apparently partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: strinkle n.; sprinkle v.2
Etymology: Apparently partly (i) (in sense 1) an alteration of strinkle n., perhaps after springel n. or sprinkle v.2 (although the latter is first attested slightly later), and partly (ii) (in later use) directly < sprinkle v.2In sense 2 perhaps influenced by Middle Dutch sprenkel, sprynckel small stain, freckle (Dutch †sprenkel ), apparently cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Low German sprinkel freckle (rare), German Sprenkel speckle, spot, freckle (15th cent., now rare). With this sense compare also quot. a1382 at sprinkled adj. 1a and the discussion at that entry.
1. An implement used to sprinkle liquids, esp. one used to sprinkle holy water; an aspergillum. Cf. holy-water sprinkle n. at holy water n. Compounds 2, sprinkler n. 2. Obsolete.
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society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > aspergillum > [noun]
strinklec1175
sprinklea1382
springelc1390
sprentc1400
holy-water stick1413
stick1413
holy-water sprinklec1440
holy-water strinklec1440
dashel1502
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asperges1570
sprinkler1577
aspergilluma1657
aspergoire1772
hyssop1838
mop1838
asperge1848
aspersoir1851
aspergill1864
aspersory1881
asperser1882
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of sprinkling > [noun] > sprinkler
sprinklea1382
sprinkler1535
springer1601
sprinker1648
aspergilluma1657
sperge1676
rose1706
rose head1742
whisk1745
asperge1848
rose nozzle1848
rose sprinkler1856
water head1856
sparger1858
sprinkler installation1887
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xii. 22 Þe lytyll sprynkill [L. fasciculum] of ysope: wetiþ in blode.
1423 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1943) IV. 165 (MED) [One] halywaterstope, [one] sprinkyll.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. xxxiv/1 Foure crosses..besprenct wyth tholy water styck or spryncle.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria i. f. 16v Geue me holy water with the sprinkell.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. xvi. f. 42v These men..are Gentiles, which serue in Malabar in their Pagodes, who with a sprinkle tooke water out of a certaine fountaine & threw the same vpon the Captaine generall.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 20 This blacke Sprinkle, tuft with Virgins tresse, Dipt, at your Altar, in my kinsmans blood.
a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) v. ix. sig. M1 Give me my holly sprinckle... Give me my holy water pot.
1739 T. Arnold Neues Deutsch-Englisches Wörter-Buch Spreng-Wedel, m. Sprengell, a Sprinkle.
1803 W. O. Pughe Geiriadur Cynmraeg a Saesoneg: Welsh & Eng. Dict. II Siobo, a sprinkle used in throwing holy water.
1852 Man. Ceremonies Catholic Churches in U.S.A. (rev. ed.) ii. i. 18 The holy water-pot, with a sprinkle.
2. A spot, a speck. Now rare.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > small spot or speckle
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pointa1400
masclec1400
specklec1440
pecklec1450
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punctum1653
pip1676
spark1686
punctal1694
mail1727
punctule1785
puncta1858
freck1866
guttula1887
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 77 The thirde colour was grene lyke glas, But ther were somme sprynklis [Du. dropel] therin lyke purpure.
1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes i. f. 18v The Blood stone is a kinde of Iasper of diuers coullours..full of sprincles, like to blood.
1632 H. Hawkins Hist. S. Elizabeth i. ix. 107 That which makes the Saphire more pleasing is, certaine litle marks or sprinckles of gold here and there, wherewith it shines.
1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 223 This is mostly composed of pale brassey micæ, with..near a quarter part of black sprinkles.
1855 A. W. Cole Legends in Verse 233 Time had just pepper'd his head with some sprinkles.
1949 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 22 May A harlequin type [of Great Dane], white background and odd-shaped black spots, sprinkles..and dots and dashes all over.
3.
a. A quantity of something sprinkled or to be sprinkled. Also: an act of sprinkling.figurative in quot. 1862.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of sprinkling > [noun]
sprengingOE
springinga1382
sprinklingc1400
arrousement1483
sprinkle1575
sparging1836
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [noun] > scattering in small particles or sprinkling
sprengingOE
sprengea1350
springinga1382
bespringing1398
sprinklingc1400
sprainture1481
springling?1549
inspersion1568
conspersionc1572
sprinkle1575
respersion1635
spargefaction1704
spargefication1834
sprayinga1884
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [noun] > scattering in small particles or sprinkling > that which is sprinkled
sprinkle1575
sprinkling1602
powdering1626
strinkling1660
spray1750
scatter1954
1575 G. Fenton Golden Epist. f. 97v Jsaac..saw the sprinkles and markes of the bloud.
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 45 Baptizing the Christian infant with a solemne sprinkle.
1665 J. Locke in H. R. F. Bourne Life J. Locke (1876) I. iii. 114 I had a good sprinkle of holy water.
1776 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions IV. lxxxix. 190 A bottle of that Madeira, and a pot of that porter.—With..a sprinkle of the nutmeg in the latter.
1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 65. 523 A greenish liquor, that turned the colour of every thing which it touched; and a small sprinkle on the surgeon's hand gave him all the appearance of being ill of the meazles.
1854 ‘G. Greenwood’ Haps & Mishaps 122 Where,..for baptismal and holy waters, [were] the sprinkle and gush of their blood.
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiv. iv. 654 Is it in a sprinkle of disconnected fractions that you will wait Prince Karl?
1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow iii. iv. 172 A thin sprinkle of snow and thin flakes of foam came flying.
1900 Ohio Farmer 13 Dec. 441/1 It is quite desirable that these nest shelves be kept clean and sanded, or a sprinkle of sawdust used.
1942 And the Greeks 38 Season them with salt, pepper, and a sprinkle of thyme.
2016 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 Aug. (Food section) e4 The strainer makes for a really even sprinkle.
b. In extended use: a small number or quantity. Chiefly with of. Cf. sprinkling n.1 2.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > fewness > [noun] > a small number of
some fewOE
puckleOE
a litec1290
couple1365
a…or twoa1400
handfulc1443
a wheen (of)1487
and odd1548
sprinkling1561
pair1611
scattering1628
sprinkle1754
1754 Whitehall Evening-post 15–18 June Boats have taken this Morning a fine Sprinkle of Mackarel.
1769 Ann. Reg. 1768 Projects 109/1 We had but a small sprinkle of the common turnip cabbage among the whole.
1835 S. R. Maitland in Brit. Mag. Oct. 389 A thicker and more extensive sprinkle of better-instructed persons.
1890 Daily News 2 Sept. 2/7 There has been a good sprinkle of the new growth on the market to-day.
1900 Forest & Stream 10 Feb. 103/2 A occasional sprinkle of goldfinches in the rustling thickets.
1955 ‘P. Wentworth’ Listening Eye (1997) x. 67 Merefields lay in the spring sunshine with a sprinkle of daffodils in its shrubberies.
2005 Asian Woman Feb. 67 A catchy blend of underground hip-hop,..a smithereen of reggae and a sprinkle of female British Asian attitude.
4. Bookbinding. A decorative effect used on a book edge consisting of a speckled pattern produced by sprinkling the edge with one or more colours (now rare). Formerly also: †a mixture used to produce this effect (obsolete). Cf. sprinkle v.2 2b(b).
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > small spot or speckle > speckled marking or effect
sprinkle1811
freckling1820
stipple1837
speckle1851
stippling1851
1811 H. Parry Whole Art of Bookbinding 21 Another beautiful sprinkle may be done by giving, in addition to the dark sprinkle, a sprinkle of brown and vitriol water.
1835 ‘J. A. Arnett’ Bibliopegia ii. 101 On the fancy colours and sprinkles it is usual to attach lettering pieces of morocco.
1885 W. J. E. Crane Bookbinding iii. 27 Bole Armenian, for making sprinkle for edges.
1933 W. Atkins Art & Pract. Printing V. i. iii. 59 Two or three colour sprinkles look very well.
5. A light rain; a drizzle.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > light or fine rain
roke1292
mull-rain1440
mizzle1490
rugc1540
drizzlea1612
dag1808
smur1808
sprinkle1829
skew1839
fret1982
1829 Pennsylvania Inquirer 15 Sept. 2/5 For nearly five weeks we have been without rain, and during the hottest month, including the dog days, we have scarcely had a sprinkle.
1842 in Cotton (India): Return Papers E. India Company (1847) ii. 172 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 439) XLII. 1 I was overtaken by one of the severest dust storms I ever met; it lasted a great while, and was followed by a little sprinkle of rain; I am sorry to say it was only a sprinkle.
1877 W. W. Fowler Woman on Amer. Frontier viii. 188 While the supper is cooking the rain subsides to a sprinkle.
1933 New Castle (Pa.) News 26 June 14/5 For some reason we weren't in the path of the rain king Sunday, save for a bit of a sprinkle.
1973 Motor Boating & Sailing June 154 The girls continued straight through to Buffalo State Park, arriving just as a light sprinkle began.
2012 Independent 11 Aug. 11/4 It was so dry back then, I never did see a single rain in years that was anything more than a sprinkle.
6. In plural. Originally North American. Very small strands or particles of chocolate or coloured sugar (often multicoloured), used to decorate cakes, ice creams, etc. Cf. hundreds and thousands at hundred n. and adj. 7, Jimmy n.2 Additions, nonpareil n.
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1921 Western Confectioner June 63/2 Chocolate Sprinkles for Sundaes. A new product is being put on the market..in the form of ‘Chocolate Sprinkles’. They..are used to decorate chocolates..bon bons, cakes, pastry; also for sprinkling on chocolate sundaes at the fountain.
1978 Washington Post 29 Oct. 36/2 For dessert, a great cut of rum-drenched cake with red and green sprinkles on top.
1991 G. Damerow Ice Cream! (1995) xxii. 233 Prefill cones with freshly frozen ice cream... Dip them, if desired, in sprinkles, miniature chocolate chips, or chopped nuts.
2016 PR Newswire (Nexis) 19 Aug. Dipped cookies, cheesecake bites and crispy treats hand-decorated with rainbow sprinkles are just a few of the other delectable birthday desserts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

sprinklen.2

Brit. /ˈsprɪŋkl/, U.S. /ˈsprɪŋkəl/
Origin: Apparently an imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Apparently imitative; probably with punning allusion to sprinkle n.1 3. Compare tinkle n.
rare.
A light, tinkling sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] > tinkle or ting
twinkling13..
tinglinga1398
tinklinga1398
ting1611
tinkle-tanklinga1625
tinkle-tankle1642
tinniment1656
tinkle1722
tingle1754
sprinkle1843
ting-a-ling?1850
tankling1864
plinkety1891
ting-a-ring1931
1843 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 62 At Sorrento you hear nothing but the light surges of the sea, and the sweet sprinkles of the guitar.
1988 B. Martin & J. Archambault Listen to Rain 2 Listen to the rain, the whisper of the rain, the slow soft sprinkle, the drip-drop tinkle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sprinklev.1

Forms:

α. Middle English sprenkel, Middle English sprenkle.

β. Middle English 1600s sprinkel, 1500s sprinckle, 1500s spryncle, 1500s–1600s sprinkle; also Scottish pre-1700 sprinkill, pre-1700 sprynkil, pre-1700 sprynkill, pre-1700 sprynkle.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: sprankle v.
Etymology: Alteration of sprankle v., probably after sprinkle v.2 Compare sprinkling n.2
Obsolete.
1. intransitive. To crackle.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > crackle
brastlec1000
rashetOE
spranklea1387
sprinklea1398
graislea1522
crash1563
crackle?1570
crick-crackle1608
decrepitate1677
crump1789
happer1825
crumple1837
crickle1849
crick-crack1850
crepitate1853
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. cxlix. 811 In þe see of Scicilia is..a wondir maner salt, for it melteþ in fyre and sprenkeleþ in watir [L. in aquis..crepitantes].
2. intransitive. To sparkle.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [verb (intransitive)] > sparkle or glitter
twinklec888
shimc950
blika1000
glisec1000
glistenc1000
glista1225
glore13..
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sprinklea1400
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glaster1447
springlec1460
sprangle1495
brandish1552
pink1589
scintillate1623
simper1633
twink1637
spangle1639
scintill1681
scintillize1694
prinkle1724
skinkle1765
winkle1791
coruscate1807
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle
warpc1000
sprengeOE
strenkc1175
springa1387
bespring1387
sprinkc1390
sprinklea1400
strinklec1400
springle?a1425
sprinkle?a1425
sprainc1440
bespreng1496
oversprinkle?1548
overstrew1570
besprent1573
insperse1587
insperge1599
asperse1607
besprink1609
disparple?1615
spark1637
swiggle1683
twirl1763
sparkle1787
bespatter1813
spray1829
a1400 [implied in: Ancrene Riwle (Pepys) (1976) 11 After þe Messe..forȝeteþ al þe werlde & beþ out of ȝoure seluen þere is sprinkelynge of loue.].
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 139 His eghen er so fast stirrand and sprenkland as fyre.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth x. sig. F.i Wyne..must spryncle in the cup whan it is drawne or put out of the pot.
1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xii. 26 From his face with rage that boyles The sparkles sprinckling flie.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xviii. xvi. 318 The heau'nly dew was on his garments spred,..And sprinkled so, that all that palenesse fled.
1614 D. Dyke Myst. Selfe-deceiuing xv. 189 The wine sprinkling and leaping in the glasse.
3. intransitive. Scottish. To wriggle; to dart quickly. rare.Only recorded in Gavin Douglas.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > writhe or twist [verb (intransitive)] > wriggle
wiggle?c1225
wriggle1495
wraggle?a1513
wrabble1513
sprinklea1522
wrig1599
squirm1691
scrigglea1701
wraxle1746
squiggle1816
wiggle-waggle1827
swiggle1837
scurrifunge1894
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. xiv. l. 71 All thocht scho [sc. a serpent] wreill and sprynkill, bend or skyp, Evir the sarar this ern strenys hys gryp.
a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. Prol. l. 56 The syluer scalyt fyschis on the greit Ourthwort cleir stremys sprynkland for the heyt.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

sprinklev.2

Brit. /ˈsprɪŋkl/, U.S. /ˈsprɪŋkəl/
Forms:

α. late Middle English sprengkel, late Middle English sprenkel, late Middle English sprenkylle, late Middle English–1500s sprencle, late Middle English–1500s Scottish sprenkill, late Middle English–1500s sprenkle, 1500s sprenkyll.

β. late Middle English sprynkill, late Middle English–1500s sprinkel, late Middle English–1500s spryncle, late Middle English–1500s sprynkel, late Middle English–1500s sprynkle, late Middle English– sprinkle, 1500s sprynckle, 1500s sprynkell, 1500s–1600s sprinckle, 1500s–1600s sprincle, 1500s–1600s sprinkell, 1500s–1600s sprinkil, 1500s–1600s sprinkill, 1600s sprinkile.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: Dutch -sprinkelen, -sprenkelen.
Etymology: Apparently < Middle Dutch -sprinkelen, -sprenkelen (in besprinkelen, besprenkelen besprinkle v.; Dutch sprenkelen to scatter or disperse in small drops or particles, to splatter, splash), apparently < sprengen sprenge v. + -elen -le suffix 3 (with devoicing of the velar before l ); probably subsequently influenced by Middle Dutch, Dutch sprenkel speckle, spot (see sprinkle n.1). Compare besprinkle v. and earlier bespreng v. and strinkle v. Compare also spring v.1 4 and discussion at that entry, and also springle v.1With sense 2 compare German sprenkeln to cover with coloured or dirty spots (17th cent.; probably < Sprenkel speckle, spot: see sprinkle n.1). Compare also West Frisian sprinkelje , North Frisian sprēnkeli . Compare further sprinkled adj. and the Germanic forms cited at that entry. With sense 3 compare earlier sprenge v. 2b.
1.
a. transitive. To scatter or disperse (liquid, powder, etc.) in small drops or particles, or in small amounts; to strew thinly or lightly. Also figurative.intransitive in quot. 1611.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of sprinkling > sprinkle liquid or something with liquid [verb (transitive)]
strinklea1300
sprinkc1390
springle?a1425
sprinkle?a1425
asperse1490
asperge1547
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle
warpc1000
sprengeOE
strenkc1175
springa1387
bespring1387
sprinkc1390
sprinklea1400
strinklec1400
springle?a1425
sprinkle?a1425
sprainc1440
bespreng1496
oversprinkle?1548
overstrew1570
besprent1573
insperse1587
insperge1599
asperse1607
besprink1609
disparple?1615
spark1637
swiggle1683
twirl1763
sparkle1787
bespatter1813
spray1829
α.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 85 Þai..takes þaire blude and sprenklez it apon þaire mawmets.
c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 74 After þe fomentyng be sprenkled aboue puluis of bole, of sanguis draconis,..and sich like.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 470 Sprenkelyn, or strenkelyn, aspergo, conspergo.
1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. kk.iiijv He was made clene..with ysope dypped in the blode of certayne beestes and sprencled vpon hym.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Moses ix. B Let Moses sprenkle it [sc. ashes] towarde heauen before Pharao.
β. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 157v (MED) Water of rosis is to be sprinkled in þair face, or a vippe, i. sop, or a pome granate is to be giffen to þam.?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 119 To Sprynkill [1483 BL Add. 89074 Sprenkylle], spargere, fundere.a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxixv Some of her systers counseyled her to haue holy water, euer redy at hande, & to spryncle it vpon hym whan he cometh.1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Kiiv They burne swete gummes and speces.., and sprincle about swete oyntmentes and waters.1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 115 O gentle sonne Vpon the heat and flame of thy distemper Sprinckle coole patience. View more context for this quotation1611 Bible (King James) Lev. xiv. 7 He shall sprinckle vpon him..seuen times. View more context for this quotation1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 53 Sprinkle sordid Ashes all around. View more context for this quotation1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 102 If he sprinkle any Grace over the Platter, it's a plain Symptom that his Mau's out of Order.1765 Museum Rusticum 4 101 Afterwards let water be sprinkled over the shot.1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xviii. 475 It is best mixed by..sprinkling the powder into it.1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. xxv. 241 Some of the poison was sprinkled on a leaf of lettuce.1910 Youth's Compan. 6 Jan. 18/1 In a case of prolonged faint, cold water may be sprinkled over the face and chest.1971 Gourmet Feb. 77/2 Sprinkle one-third of the walnut mixture in the bottom of a buttered 10-inch Bundt pan.2012 J. Roberts How Dice Fell 325 With her trowel she roughened and freshened the damp earth, and sprinkled the seeds at the back of the bed.
b. transitive. To distribute (objects, people, etc.) randomly or irregularly. With adverb or prepositional phrase. Chiefly in passive.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > scatter (a surface) with something
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setc1386
ficche1413
sprinkle?1518
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sow1611
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shower1798
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > scatter here and there at intervals
disparplea1325
scatterc1380
sprinkle?1518
sparse1608
resperse1649
?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Cijv Now are they sprencled, and sparcled abrode Lyke wyse as shyppes, be docked in a rode.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 730/1 He sprenkylleth his monay abrode as thoughe he cared nat for it.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. ix. 187 Besides cities, many private dwellings were sprinkled on mount Ephraim.
1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 52 When they [sc. Small Pox and Measels] are sporadical, here and there sprinkled up and down among the people.
1719 E. Young Busiris v. 57 Behold thy Troops are thin, Thy Men are rarely sprinkled o'er the Field.
1787 J. Adams Def. Constit. Govt. U.S.A. lv. 381 A people living chiefly by agriculture, in small numbers, sprinkled over large tracts of land.
1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. iii. 11 Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears.
1885 Echo 14 July 1/5 Mr. Burnand has sprinkled jokes and quaint allusions through his burlesque pretty liberally.
1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xix. 210 Anne's adventures and misadventures..did not all happen at once, but were sprinkled over the year.
1989 G. Vanderhaeghe Homesick v. 52 Yellow goat's beard, white yarrow, and cow parsnip were sprinkled everywhere.
2016 NPR (Nexis) 15 Feb. Sprinkled throughout this history are little anecdotes.
2. transitive. Chiefly with with.
a.
(a) To cover or scatter (an object, surface, person, etc.) with small drops, particles, or amounts of a substance.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle > sprinkle (a surface) with something
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strinklea1300
to-sprenga1382
sparkle14..
sprinkle?a1425
besprinklec1440
asperse1490
spray1527
asperge1547
pepper?1605
bepeps1622
conspergate1623
bescatter1631
spurtle1633
spatter1647
consperge1657
superfuse1657
bespatter1674
superseminate1699
asperge1721
sparge1786
spray1861
?a1425 (a1325) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Digby) (1887) l. 2761 (MED) Men schulde sprencle [c1325 Calig. þe worc mid is blode..Bi sprengde].
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. xcvii. sig. Rii/2 The threde is..wasshe and sprynclyd wyth water vntyll that it be whyte.
a1500 (?c1414) Paraphr. Seven Penitential Psalms 23 Sprenkle me, Lord! with watyr of terys.
1566 T. Heskyns Parl. Chryste iii. xvi. sig. Aaa viv Do not sprenkle the aultar of Idolls with the slaughter of brute beastes.
1602 Kyd's Spanish Trag. (new ed.) iii. sig. H3 Duly twice a morning, Would I be sprinkling it with fountaine water.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 139 She sprinkl'd thrice, with Wine, the Vestal Fire. View more context for this quotation
1709 J. Swift in R. Steele Tatler No. 9 The Slipshod 'Prentice from his Master's Dore, Had par'd the Street, and sprinkl'd round the Floor.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 311 Care should be used..to sprinkle them [sc. leeches] with salt if they continue to adhere.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. x. 307 She had sprinkled the face of her baby all over with large tears.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native III. v. viii. 223 The floor was merely sprinkled with rain, and not saturated.
1928 F. S. Flint & D. F. Tait tr. R. Fülöp-Miller Rasputin xii. 242 Iliodor..sprinkled the woman with holy water,..and said the prescribed prayers.
1989 Country Premier Issue 4/2 Dew sprinkles your shoes and fresh country air fills your nostrils.
2004 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. Nov. 22/4 Bialy—a round toasted bread generously sprinkled with onions and poppy seeds.
(b) reflexive. To cover oneself with small drops, particles, or amounts of a substance.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (reflexive)] > sprinkle
sprinkle1528
1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. cxiiiv No man by sprynkelinge himselfe with holy water..is moare mercyfull then before.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cliij It is no newes to the Bishoppes..to sprincle, and defile them selues with innocent bloude.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 185 For remedy, they wash their hands and sprinckle themselues..with that water.
1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned ii. i. 147 He put on Sackcloth, sprinkled himself with Ashes.
1732 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 3 No. 16. 393 Sprinkling themselves with lustrifical Water.
1837 Brit. Mag. Mar. 280 I observed but a few persons sprinkle themselves, and those who did so generally made an obeisance to the altar.
1869 Church Missionary Intelligencer Jan. 5 There is blood wherewith we may sprinkle ourselves.
1931 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 8 June 3/6 Old Christopher Columbus had a dimple in his chin and was fond of sprinkling himself with perfume.
1966 Chicago Daily Defender 26 May 17/5 A lost city of El Dorado, so rich that the king sprinkled himself with gold dust.
2000 G. P. Hughes in J. Thomas Catwomen from Hell 139 I emerged from the bath and sprinkled myself with lavender.
(c) figurative and in figurative contexts.
ΚΠ
1558 T. Becon Pomander of Prayer 250 This liuing death, & diyinge life, although it be sprinkled and mixte with these and other sorows and miseries, yet..how many men dooth it catche and entangle?
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. i. f. 23 I meant those, who though sprinckled with some imperfections, yet wrie rather to the good, then the euill.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. iii. 4 in Wks. II Why? we were all a little stain'd last night, sprinckled with a cup or two.
1674 E. Elys tr. Boethius Summum Bonum ii. 57 What bitterness is the sweetness of Humane Felicity sprinkled with!
1787 Olla Podrida 6 Oct. 175 Letters and essays, wise sayings and apothegms, sprinkled with your attic salt, are preserved in your miscellany for our winter evenings' amusement.
1833 H. Coleridge Biographia Borealis 17 He takes care to sprinkle his letters with loyalty.
1939 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 17 Jan. 16/3 It's flavored throughout with comedy for the rollicker..sprinkled with drops of drama for the emotional.
2015 Daily Tel. 23 Feb. 18/2 A sickly confection of culinary one-upmanship, oozing theatricality and lightly sprinkled with complacency.
b.
(a) To cover lightly with small specks or spots of a particular colour. Chiefly in passive.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > spot [verb (transitive)] > speckle
powderc1380
besprenga1425
prick1530
sprinkle1551
peckle1570
speckle1570
speck1580
pepper?1605
pounce1610
freckle1613
freck1621
stipplea1774
punctuate1777
dot1784
puncture1848
bespeckle1860
prickle1888
tick1910
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. Ov Dragon hath..a streyght stalk, two cubites long of diuerse coloures sprinkled with diuerse purple spottes.
1614 T. S. Iewell for Gentrie sig. C Euery Goshawke, and euery Tercels brayles be sprinkled with blacke specks like armines.
1660 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. D. Sennert Thirteen Bks. Nat. Philos. vii. x. 394 His Comb resembling a Crown was sprinkled partly with yellow, and partly with blue spots.
1704 Nat. Hist. iii, in L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. (ed. 2) 204 A row of round Pea-like black spots sprinkled with blew specks.
1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 94 Dionysia..has a brown or iron Colour, sprinkled over [L. aspersum] with snow Spots.
1827 J. F. Cooper Red Rover I. ii. 39 His head was beginning to be sprinkled with gray.
1855 Poultry Chron. 3 374 He may perhaps observe it sprinkled over with black spots.
1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes 264 The male is olive-green, the back chocolate, the body sprinkled with dark green spots.
1990 ‘B. Vine’ Gallowglass ix. 105 The cherry blossom sprinkled the woods with white like a thin fall of snow.
2016 Ont. Farmer (Nexis) 30 Aug. (Letters section) a7 They do not notice their hair is sprinkled with gray.
(b) Bookbinding. To apply a decorative speckled effect to a book edge or cover, usually by lightly spotting a colour or colours over the surface using a brush. Frequently in passive. Also intransitive. Cf. sprinkle n.1 4. Now rare.
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1811 H. Parry Whole Art of Bookbinding 21 Sprinkle it very fine and dark with the copperas.
1818 H. Parry Art of Bookbinding 19 The edges may now be coloured, sprinkled, or marbled, to fancy.
1835 ‘J. A. Arnett’ Bibliopegia 90 Sprinkle very finely with black and then with brown.
1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 241/2 Books may be sprinkled so as to resemble a kind of marble by using 2 or 3 different colours.
1933 W. Atkins Art & Pract. Printing V. iii. 59 The books should be tied up in batches, and stood so that the edges to be sprinkled are uppermost.
c. To dot (a surface, landscape, etc.) randomly or irregularly with something; to intersperse (a text, conversation, etc.) with particular words, quotations, etc.; to mix (something) lightly with something. Chiefly in passive.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > imbue with vigour or force [verb (transitive)] > make more piquant or poignant
farcea1340
sprinkle1605
cantharidize1812
pepper1835
acuminate1879
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 122 The Firmament..Spreads his blew curtaine,..Sprinckled with eyes, speckled with Tapers bright.
1745 ‘Verax’ Expostulatory Ep. to Welch Knight 27 In no one Station are you allowed to take Post by yourselves, but are sprinkled with their Veterans to shew who are your Masters.
1793 R. Burns Let. Sept. (1985) II. 245 I have sprinkled it with the Scotch dialect, but it may be easily turned into correct English.
1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. v. 332 An irregular savannah..sprinkled with a few trees.
1892 A. I. Ritchie Rec. Tennyson iii. iv. 187 A road..ran across commons sprinkled with geese and with lively donkeys.
1939 Anniston (Alabama) Star 13 Feb. 5/1 He had nice, healthy skin, sprinkled with a few freckles, and sparkling blue eyes.
1987 P. McCabe Bad News at Black Rock ii. 23 Sauter..sprinkled his conversation with quotations from literature.
2015 New Yorker 22 June 19/2 The bar is often sprinkled with self-conscious new settlers, but the congregation of fortysomething regulars remains the soul of the place.
3. transitive. With from. To cleanse, to purify. Obsolete.With reference or allusion to Hebrews 10:22 (see quot. 1526). Cf. earlier sprenge v. 2b.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > clean [verb (transitive)]
yclense971
cleansea1000
farmOE
fayc1220
fowc1350
absterse?a1425
mundify?a1425
muck1429
to cast clean1522
absterge1526
sprinkle1526
reconcile1535
net1536
clengec1540
neat?1575
snuff?1575
rinse1595
deterge1623
scavengea1644
scavenger1645
decrott1653
reform1675
clean1681
deterse1684
fluxa1763
to clean away, offa1839
to clean down1839
scavage1851
untaint1855
to sand and canvas1912
society > morality > virtue > purity > make pure [verb (transitive)]
cleansec897
shire?c1225
clengea1300
purge1340
purec1350
purifya1393
whitena1400
sprinkle1526
refine1594
simplify1609
sublime1613
purgate1795
revirginize1852
bleach1868
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Heb. x. f. cccx Sprynckeled [Ger. besprenget, Gk. ῥεραντισμένοι] in oure hertes, from an evyll conscience.
a1599 R. Rollock Serm. (1616) xii. 241 His soule and his conscience must bee sprinkled and purged from dead workes.
a1622 N. Byfield Comm. 2nd Chapter of 1st Epist. St. Peter (1623) 774 An euill Conscience will neuer bee gotten off, vnlesse our harts bee sprinkled, and washed from the filth and power of the sinnes, which did lie vpon the Conscience.
1716 J. Willison Treat. conc. Sanctifying Lord's Day App. 419 We have oft..trampled on that Blood which must sprinkle us from Guilt.
1836 E. Bates Sermons iv. 63 Our consciences are sprinkled from doing sin, to serve the living God.
1863 Rushville (Indiana) Weekly Republican 2 Sept. I intend to go into this contest in the full assurance of faith, having my heart sprinkled from the new fangled democracy of Vallandigham.
4. intransitive. With up. To rise up in fine drops. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of sprinkling > sprinkle water or liquid [verb (intransitive)]
springea1382
sprinkle1594
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. N4v Bloud spilt on the ground sprinkles vp to the firmament.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §9 It will make the Water friske and sprinckle vp, in a fine Dew.
5. transitive. To baptize (a person, esp. a child) by dripping water on his or her head. Often (and in earliest use) depreciative.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > kinds of baptism > by sprinkling > perform baptism by sprinkling [verb (transitive)]
sprinkle1642
rantize1645
1642 E. Barber Small Treat. of Baptisme, or, Dipping 20 God-fathers and God-mothers,..upon the profession of whose Faith..the Infant is sprinkled.
1654 R. F. Heart Opened by Christ 4 Christ never sprinkling any infant, nor the apostles never sprinkled any, for that is carnal, and they have no Scripture-rule for it.
1734 D. Rees Infant-Baptism no Inst. of Christ 270 Whether the Paedobaptist-Ministers..dip their fingers in the Bason of Water, when they sprinkle a Child in Baptism.
1797 Acct. Divine Visitation & Blessing 38 I refused to have my dear daughter Gulielma sprinkled, which brought great reproach upon me.
1855 T. Guthrie Gospel in Ezek. (1856) 247 With this sacred lavation the priest sprinkles the man.
1921 H. E. Dosker Dutch Anabaptists 111 The Anabaptists..knew nothing of that mode of baptism [sc. dipping] and always sprinkled or affused.
1993 W. Woodruff Billy Boy iii. 45 ‘Did you sprinkle him?’ she kept asking. ‘Are you sure? You know what happens to an unsprinkled soul, Will.’
2012 J. Meredith & W. Doyle Mission from God i. 10 I was first baptized in the Methodist church and they sprinkled me.
6. intransitive. U.S. To rain lightly. Frequently with non-referential it as subject, in it is sprinkling, etc.: it is raining lightly. Also transitive with rain as object.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > rain falls [verb (intransitive)] > fall in scattered drops
spit1567
sprinkle1779
1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 129 It began..to sprinkle. [Note] To sprinkle (or spit), to rain slow in largish drops.
1788 G. Washington Diary 6 Oct. (1979) V. 402 About Noon it began to sprinkle rain.
1855 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 6 Oct. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. iii. 388 It still sprinkled and misted as we went homeward.
1877 Daily Alleganian & Times (Cumberland, Maryland) 16 Nov. The rain which sprinkled at intervals yesterday continued during the night.
1935 Oxnard (Calif.) Daily Courier 27 Nov. The rain sprinkled a little in Guard but..every so often the sun would peep out of the clouds.
1964 M. Montgomery Darrell iii. 180 It is beginning to sprinkle rain.
2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 31 May (Late ed.) a15 ‘It is sprinkling right now,’ he said around noon on Monday.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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