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sparkler

nounB2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,575 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: sparklers

A sparkler is a hand-held stick that burns with bright sparks. Light a sparkler, wave the sparkler, sparklers at midnight.

It burns at over a thousand degrees and causes more injuries to small children than any other firework, which surprises everybody. The used stick stays hot for a long time and should go straight into water.

Steindy (talk) 21:50, 21 December 2014 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of sparkler

  1. 1nounsparklerA hand-held stick that burns with bright sparks.B2

    “The children wrote their names in the dark with sparklers on Bonfire Night.”

sparkler is a firework.

Where it comes from

  1. Middle English

    sparkel

  2. English

    sparkle

  3. English, today

    sparkler

From sparkle + -er. sparkle comes from Middle English sparkel, sparkle, sparcle, equivalent to spark + le. In some modern uses deverbal from etymology 2 below.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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sparkler in the wild

  • A sparkler is a type of hand-held firework that burns slowly while emitting bright, colored sparks.

    Sparkler

  • Senko hanabi is a traditional Japanese firework and a type of sparkler.

    Senko hanabi

  • A common demonstration of SM is a child's ability to write letters and make circles by twirling a sparkler at night.

    Sensory memory

  • When the sparkler is spun fast enough, it appears to leave a trail which forms a continuous image.

    Sensory memory

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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