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spritz

UK/spɹɪts/ US/ʃpɹɪts/ rare
noun (1) verb (2)

noun

1.

verb

1.

eject (a liquid) quickly

  • “spritz water on a surface”
2.

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

  • “Spritz the lawn with water”

Origin

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.

Phrases

  • spritz cookie

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