drizzle

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
drizzle/ˈdrɪzl/

▶noun

• 1 light rain falling in very fine drops.

• 2 a thin stream of a liquid ingredient trickled over food.

▶verb

• 1 (it drizzles, it is drizzling, etc.) rain lightly.

• 2 trickle (an ingredient) over food.

– derivatives
drizzly adjective (drizzlier, drizzliest).

– origin C16: prob. based on OE drēosan ‘to fall’, of Gmc origin; prob. rel. to dreary.