spritz

noun

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

   “Fish is good with a spritz of lemon juice.”

2. (broadly)A small amount of something; a dash or jot.
3. Synonym of spritzer (“spray bottle”).
4. Synonym of spritzer (“drink made with white wine and soda water”).
5. A cocktail consisting of prosecco, soda water, and bitters.

   “Aperol spritz”

   “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.”

   “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.”

verb

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.”

   ““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.””

2. (impersonal)To drizzle, to rain lightly.