sprinklingnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈsprɪŋ.kəl.ɪŋ/us/ˈsprɪŋ.kəl.ɪŋ/small pieces or drops of something that are dropped over a surface:
Top each bowl with a generous sprinkling of fresh mint.
figurative The audience were mainly women with a sprinkling (= a small number) of earnest-looking men.
figurative Looking young for his 40 years, he has just a sprinkling (= a small number) of grey hairs at the temples.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Spreading and scattering
- all over the place idiom
- bedaub
- bestrew
- billow
- circulate
- fan out
- go round (somewhere)
- go/do the rounds idiom
- percolate
- radial
- radiate
- slap
- sprawl
- spread
- spread out
- straggle
- stretch
- strew
- suffuse
- sweep
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