sprinklings

Noun

sprinkling (plural sprinklings)

1. The action of the verb to sprinkle.
2. A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
   • Among the devotees […] were persons who suffered from loathsome skin diseases, such as smallpox, abscesses, and the itch; and among them there was a fair sprinkling of debauchees, who had drunk themselves nearly blind and hoped to recover the use of their precious eyes by parading for a month in...1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 299

   Synonyms:

   dusting, smattering, sprinkle, ace, atom, thought, atomy, aught, bissel, continental

3. A light shower of rain.

   Synonyms:

   flirt, skiff, sprinkle

4. A scattering.

   Synonyms:

   diffusion, dispersion, spatter, spread, strewing