drizzleyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[drizzle 词源字典]
drizzle: see dreary
[drizzle etymology, drizzle origin, 英语词源]
drizzle (v.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1540s, perhaps an alteration of drysning "a falling of dew" (c. 1400), from Old English -drysnian, related to dreosan "to fall," from PIE root *dhreu- (see drip (v.)). Or perhaps a frequentative of Middle English dresen "to fall," from Old English dreosan. Related: Drizzled; drizzling. As a noun, from 1550s.