Definition of "drizzle"

drizzle

/ˈdɹɪz.l/

verb
third-person singular simple present drizzles, present participle drizzling, simple past and past participle drizzled
1. (impersonal) To rain lightly.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
  Quotations
  And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend,As on your boughes the ysicles depend.
  1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Ianuarie. Aegloga Prima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […]; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890,
  When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;But for the sunset of my brother’s sonIt rains downright.
  c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene v]
3. (cooking, transitive) To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.
4. (cooking, transitive) To cover by pouring in this manner.
5. (slang) To urinate.
6. (dated) To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural drizzles
1. Light rain.
  Quotations
  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. (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.
3. (slang) Water.
4. (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
  Quotations
  Drizzle is not normally good news. Not when it's falling from the sky, not when it's replacing a decent helping of sauce, and especially not when it's found on a menu in close proximity to the words "balsamic vinegar". Deliciously sticky, sweet and sour lemon drizzle cake is the one, and very honourable, exception.
  April 19, 2013,Felicity Cloake, "How to Cook the Perfect Lemon Drizzle Cake" in The Guardian
  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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