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noun a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
noun the act of sprinkling or splashing water
verb distribute loosely
originFrom Middle English sprenkelen, sprynklen, from Middle Dutch sprenkelen, equivalent to sprink + -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Dutch sprenkelen (“to sprinkle”), German Low German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle; dapple”), German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle”).
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