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sprinkles

sprinkles

1.0
Small sweet pieces of chocolate or colored sugar that you put on cakes and ice cream
  • noun
  • /ˈsprɪŋkəlz/
  • US
translation icon : fideos de chocolate
  • OK, OK, let's try the chocolate with sprinkles on it.
  • apricot-ginger sprinkles
  • ginger sprinkles

We are going to be using sprinkles for the little minion's hair.

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Examples

  • The cake was beautifully decorated with colorful sprinkles on top.

  • Now we're going to add some sprinkles for design.

  • Can I have some sprinkles and ice cream?

  • I'm now just putting a couple of my little pumpkin sprinkles on the cake.

  • We have little plain cookies, sprinkles and then frosting.

  • We didn't have any candles, but the sprinkles were my idea.

  • There's chocolate sprinkles, rainbow sprinkles, red velvet.

  • She decided to add chocolate sprinkles to her ice cream for extra flavor.

  • For the party, I bought dozens of cupcakes topped with rainbow sprinkles.

Synonyms

jimmies
vssprinkles
  • US
8.2

Small sweet pieces like chocolate or candy used to decorate ice cream and cakes

are often made from colored sugar and used on more kinds of desserts

Surface Forms

sprinkle singular
sprinkles plural

Morphology

sprinkles = sprinkle (transparent) = sprinkle + s

Simple plural formation from the noun 'sprinkle'; meaning is directly the plural of the base noun.

Etymology

Sprinkles comes from the verb sprinkle, which once meant 'to scatter' tiny drops or bits, much like a light spray. So sprinkles are the small pieces you 'scatter' over cakes and ice cream.