A small stream or rivulet formed by drifting water or melting drift materials, or a small drift.
From 'drift' plus the diminutive suffix '-let' (small), following the pattern of 'stream' → 'streamlet.' The '-let' suffix appears in 'droplet,' 'booklet,' 'piglet,' creating smaller versions of concepts.
The diminutive suffix '-let' is pure charm—it turns anything into something cute and small, so a tiny drift becomes adorable 'driftlet,' which sounds like something from a fantasy novel.
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