spritz
noun
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L328345 on Wikidata ↗verb
- squirt or spray
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /spɹɪts/ / /ʃpɹɪts/
noun
Etymology: From Italian spritz, a shortening of Austrian German Gespritzter (“spritzer”).
- A cocktail consisting of prosecco, soda water, and bitters.
“Aperol spritz”
“To build a spritz worth drinking, direct your attention first to the sparkling wine, then the aperitif bottle. In the 3:2:1 formula, sparkling wine takes up the most real estate, and most spritzes are being topped with garbage bubbles.”
verb
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.
- To spray, sprinkle, or squirt lightly.
“It's hard to keep hair in a specific hairdo when you just spritz only a little bit of hair spray.”
““Sometimes,” he hastened to explain, looking at Khadijah and me, stroking his beard, “the fruit at Gaia is slightly rotten. That's the dark side of organic. Everything isn't spritzed with poisons to make it look neat.””
- To drizzle, to rain lightly.