sparkle

Meanings

Noun

• A little spark; a scintillation.
• Brilliance; luster.
• Liveliness; vivacity.
• The quality of being sparkling or fizzy; effervescence.

Verb

• To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles
• To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle
• To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
• To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce
• To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
• To disperse.
• To scatter on or over.

Related

Similar words

• shine, glisten, scintillate, radiate, coruscate, glitter, twinkle

Origin

• From Middle English sparkel, sparkle, sparcle, equivalent to spark + -le.
• From Middle English sparklen, sperclen, equivalent to spark + -le. Cognate with Dutch sparkelen ("to sparkle").