Drizzle Definition

drĭzəl
drizzled, drizzles, drizzling
verb
drizzled, drizzles, drizzling
To rain in fine, mistlike drops.
Webster's New World
To let fall in fine, mistlike drops.
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To drip or pour (a liquid) in a fine stream onto (a food)
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(slang) To urinate.

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noun
drizzles
A fine, mistlike rain.
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Light rain.
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(physics, weather). Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. It is sometimes accompanied by low visibility and fog.

No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle.
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(slang) Water.
Stop drinking all of my drizzle!
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Noun

Singular:
drizzle
Plural:
drizzles

Origin of Drizzle

  • Perhaps a back-formation from dryseling, a dissimilated variant of Middle English drysning (“a falling of dew”), from Old English drysnan (“to extinguish”), related to Old English drēosan (“to fall, to decline”), making it cognate to modern English droze and drowse.

    From Wiktionary

  • Perhaps from Middle English drisning fall of dew from Old English -drysnian (in gedrysnian to pass away, vanish) dhreu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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