drizzles

Noun

drizzle (countable and uncountable, plural drizzles)

1. Light rain.
   • Up here, it's a 'dreich' day with steady drizzle. Deep drainage channels either side of the track are already more like streams: Rannoch Moor is a wet place.2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 39
2. 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.
3. (slang) Water.
   • Stop drinking all of my drizzle!
4. Something that is drizzled.
   • The warm apple tart, made to order, had a definitively crisp shell. Its filling of apples was tender and sweet, and the drizzle of caramel rum sauce added sophistication.1999 November 21, Catherine Jones, “Restaurants: Palate and Palette”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015
5. A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
   • The rest of the day is spent trying to concentrate on ingredient labels, ordering supplies, baking some fairy cakes for a hen party and two lemon drizzles, one for a new baby and one for an old dear's birthday.2009, Jules Stanbridge, Sugar and Spice

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