(of flour or meal) mixed into a dough; cf. sense 1d.

Of a substance: dispersed in small drops or particles; lightly scattered or strewn. Also in figurative contexts. Cf. sprinkle, v.2 1a.

Dispersed or scattered, esp. in drops or small particles.

Sprinkled in.

Put into a quick or violent alternating motion; agitated; (of seed, etc.) sprinkled.

Suggestive of spluttering.