drizzle
Light rainLight rain.
» It was drizzling.
Es nieselte.
Накрапывал мелкий дождик.
Моросил дождь.
Meaning
5 senses(countable, uncountable)Light rain.
Nieselregen, Sprühregen
ме́лкий дождьmélkij doždʹ, морося́щий дождьmorosjáščij doždʹ, и́зморосьízmorosʹ
мжи́чкаmžýčka, мря́каmrjáka
very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
(countable, uncountable)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.
Nieselregen, Sprühregen
и́зморосьízmorosʹ
(countable, slang, uncountable)Water.
Stop drinking all of my drizzle!
(countable, uncountable)Something that is drizzled.
(countable, uncountable)A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
Examples
42 sentencesIt was drizzling.
ruНакрапывал мелкий дождик. — Balamax
deEs nieselte. — paulwuertz
It's drizzling outside.
deDraußen nieselt es. — Luiaard
It's drizzling out in the garden.
Ziri drizzled honey over the pancakes.
In a drizzle, a fire will fizzle.
Translations
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Origin
Perhaps a back-formation from dryseling, a dissimilated variant of Middle English drysningPerhaps 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.
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Forms
plural: drizzlesSynonyms
1 synonyms- very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower:mizzle
Word family
8 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable