sprinkly

adjective6

1. •
   Light, tending to sprinkle or fall down softly.

   • The rain had tapered off to a sprinkly drizzle, Portland's most prevalent weather condition. — 2007
2. •
   Characterised by sprinkles or sprinkling.

   • Humbert's first epiphanic vision of Lolita, for example, is rendered in aquatic, dripping, sprinkly slow motion. — 2007
3. •
   Subject to being sprinkled on.

   • I had rather a sprinkly seat in the bow, but, as we bobbed up and down, I had a good backward look at the town, which, with the ascent of mud in the foreground, looked almost set on a hill. — 1851
4. •
   Resembling sprinkles.

   • Christmas cookies and lemonade I made it safe and sound to my godmother's house in time to frost cookies and dip them in those little sprinkly things... — 2006
5. •
   Haphazardly and incompletely distributed.
6. •
   Resembling having been sprinkled with something.