spritz
/spɹɪts/
spritz noun: a sprinkling or spray of liquid; a small amount of liquid.
Noun (1)
spritz (plural spritzes)
- A sprinkling or spray of liquid; a small amount of liquid.
- Fish is good with a spritz of lemon juice.
- A small amount of something; a dash or jot.
Verb
spritz (third-person singular simple present spritzes, present participle spritzing, simple past and past participle spritzed)
- To spray, sprinkle, or squirt lightly.
- It's hard to keep hair in a specific hairdo when you just spritz only a little bit of hair spray.
- “Sometimes,” he hastened to explain, looking at Khadijah and me, stroking his beard, “the fruit at Gaia is slightly rotten. That's the dark side of organic. Everything isn't spritzed with poisons to make it look neat.”2013, Benjamin Nugent, Good Kids, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
- To drizzle, to rain lightly.
Noun (2)
spritz (plural spritzes)
Noun (3)
spritz (plural spritzes)
- A cocktail consisting of prosecco, soda water, and bitters.
- Aperol spritz
- To build a spritz worth drinking, direct your attention first to the sparkling wine, then the aperitif bottle. In the 3:2:1 formula, sparkling wine takes up the most real estate, and most spritzes are being topped with garbage bubbles.2019 May 9, Rebekah Peppler, “The Aperol Spritz Is Not a Good Drink”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Examples of spritz in a sentence
- He gave the shirt a spritzing of water and ran the iron across the collar.
- For me, a well-made spritz is an ideal opener to the night.
- The best ones are more nuanced than the Aperol spritz, but no more complicated.
Synonyms of spritz
Forms of spritz
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | spritzes |
| alternative form | shpritz |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | spritzes |
| present participle | spritzing |
| past participle | spritzed |
| past | spritzed |
Origin of spritz
Cognate with various Germanic counterparts, including German spritzen, Pennsylvania German schpritze, Yiddish שפּריץ (shprits, noun), and Yiddish שפּריצן (shpritsn, verb), and variously said (by various sources) to be borrowed from any of them; spritzer is said by some sources to be borrowed from German Spritzer, rather than being an English agent noun derived from this verb, but by surface analysis the connection is clear, even if sources do not adduce the evidence for the diachrony.
Clipping of spritzer. Piecewise doublet of etymology 1.
From Italian spritz, a shortening of Austrian German Gespritzter (“spritzer”). Piecewise doublet of etymologies 1 and 2.
Words formed from spritz
Phrases with spritz
Words that rhyme with spritz
Questions about spritz
- What does spritz mean?
- Spritz means a sprinkling or spray of liquid; a small amount of liquid.
- What part of speech is spritz?
- Spritz can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce spritz?
- Spritz is pronounced /spɹɪts/.
- What is the plural of spritz?
- The plural of spritz is spritzes.
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