drizzle
pronunciation
How to pronounce drizzle in British English:
UK [ˈdrɪzl]
How to pronounce drizzle in American English:
US [ˈdrɪzl]
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- Noun:
- very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
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- Verb:
- rain lightly
- moisten with fine drops
Word Origin
- drizzle
- drizzle: see dreary
- drizzle (v.)
- 1540s, perhaps an alteration of drysning "a falling of dew" (c. 1400), from Old English -drysnian, related to dreosan "to fall," from PIE root *dhreu- (see drip (v.)). Or perhaps a frequentative of Middle English dresen "to fall," from Old English dreosan. Related: Drizzled; drizzling. As a noun, from 1550s.
Example
- 1. The area was strewn with flowers and candles , and people who could not fit in the grand church huddled under umbrellas in a drizzle .
- 2. And more pain there will surely be , as the unremitting drizzle of depressing economic news this week made clear .
- 3. Now grunge is just a memory , but in popular culture it remains as much of a symbol of the city as the space needle , the persistent drizzle and the excellent , ubiquitous , coffee shops .