asparkle

English

Alternative forms
  • a-sparkle

Etymology

a- +‎ sparkle

Adjective

asparkle (not comparable)

  1. Sparkling.
    • 1909, Ralph Henry Barbour, The Lilac Girl, Fairfield, IA: 1st World Library, 2004, Chapter 10, p. 86,
      And when the sun shone against the walls of her palace it was filled with a lovely lavender light, and when the moon shone it was all asparkle with silver.
    • 1995, Philip Pullman, “Northern Lights”, in The Golden Compass‎, London: Scholastic, published 1998, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 163:
      Out on the deck, with the breeze blowing and the whole sea a-sparkle with light and movement, she felt little sickness at all;
    • 2004, Philip Roth, chapter 5, in The Plot Against America‎, London: Jonathan Cape, page 201:
      […] I kept hoping for the film to spin back to the moment where my aunt materialized asparkle with the gems previously the property of the rabbi's late wife.
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