Meaning

noun a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water)

verb eject (a liquid) quickly

verb cover (a location) wholly or partially by squirting a liquid onto it

originCognate 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…

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