spritz

plural spritzes · alternative shpritz

1. A sprinkling or spray of liquid; a small amount of liquid.

   Fish is good with a spritz of lemon juice.

2. broadlyA small amount of something; a dash or jot.

present singular third person spritzes · participle present spritzing · participle past spritzed · past spritzed · alternative shpritz

1. 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.

   1 more example

   “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.”

   2013, Benjamin Nugent, Good Kids, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

2. impersonalclimatologyTo drizzle, to rain lightly.

plural spritzes · alternative shpritz

1. Synonym of spritzer (“spray bottle”).

   Synonyms: spritzer

2. Synonym of spritzer (“drink made with white wine and soda water”).

   Synonyms: spritzer

plural spritzes · alternative shpritz

1. A cocktail consisting of prosecco, soda water, and bitters.

   Aperol spritz

   2 more examples

   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.

   2019 May 9, Rebekah Peppler, “The Aperol Spritz Is Not a Good Drink”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Friday morning found the lagoon city doing what it does best: looking gorgeous and slightly unreal as it played host to thousands of tourists who posed in silver-prowed gondolas, chugged mid-morning spritzes or simply wilted in the muggy heat.

   2025 June 27, Sam Jones, “Till Jeff us do part: divisive, star-studded Bezos wedding hits full swing in Venice”, in The Guardian, →ISSN