noun
Meaning 1
A sprinkling or spray of liquid; a small amount of liquid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Fish is good with a spritz of lemon juice.
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Standard Lemma guide
spritz
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noun
Meaning 2
A small amount of something; a dash or jot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
Meaning 3
Synonym of spritzer (“spray bottle”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
Synonym of spritzer (“drink made with white wine and soda water”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A cocktail consisting of prosecco, soda water, and bitters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Aperol spritz
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verb
Meaning 6
To spray, sprinkle, or squirt lightly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- It's hard to keep hair in a specific hairdo when you just spritz only a little bit of hair spray.
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verb
Meaning 7
To drizzle, to rain lightly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: impersonal
Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences, weather
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noun
Meaning 8
a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: jet, squirt, spurt, spirt
verb
Meaning 9
cover (a location) wholly or partially by squirting a liquid onto it
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Spritz the lawn with water
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Broader terms: cover
verb
Meaning 10
eject (a liquid) quickly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- spritz water on a surface
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Broader terms: squirt, force out, squeeze out, eject
History
Etymology
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.
From Italian spritz, a shortening of Austrian German Gespritzter (“spritzer”).
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- German: Spritzer — sprinkling or spray of liquid
- German: Schuss — sprinkling or spray of liquid
- German: sprühen — to spray, sprinkle, or squirt lightly
- German: spritzen — to spray, sprinkle, or squirt lightly
- Swedish: spraya — to spray, sprinkle, or squirt lightly