mizzle
1 Americanverb (used with or without object)
noun
verb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of mizzle1
First recorded in 1475–85; late Middle English missellen, missill; cognate with Dutch (dialect) mizzelen, Low German miseln “to drizzle”; akin to Middle Dutch misel “mist, dew”; see -le
Origin of mizzle2
First recorded in 1775–85; origin uncertain
Origin of mizzle3
First recorded in 1575–85; origin uncertain
Vocabulary lists containing mizzle
Example Sentences
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The murk and mizzle kept the players off for almost three hours, though the break did little to stall England's momentum.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024
Yet for the Seahawks the murk and mizzle of this grey Wembley evening felt like a home from home as they pummelled the Oakland Raiders 27-3.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2018
We have many names for rain, from mizzle to drizzle, torrents to downpours.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2017
After a warm, moonlit night the mist and mizzle descended, making it impossible to judge the moment when the sun rose over the Wiltshire plain without an accurate watch.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2013
Perhaps Parson Hyme didn't put it into Pokerville for two mortal hours; and perhaps Pokerville didn't mizzle, wince, and finally flummix right beneath him.—Field,
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
How monarchs die is easily explained, For thus upon their tombs it might be chiselled; As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled!
From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Mark Lemon
It has rained or mizzled all day, as my pockets feel.
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
The gentleman that employed me has mizzled, and he promised me fifty pounds.
From A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade
Der Breitmann poot de triangel oopon his het, and whistled, Den rop de cloak around his form, and down de Corso mizzled.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland
During the trial she mizzled, and has not, I believe, been heard of since.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various
By the time I left the cathedral it was already dark, mizzling, the kind of rain that looks like mist but drenches you in minutes.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
There is page after page of italic script describing in wonderful language the "mizzling rain", "gleamings" of sunshine and "prismatic solar halos".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2012
There is fretfulness, a mizzling, drizzling rain of discomforting remark; there is grumbling, a northeast storm that never clears; there is scolding, the thunderstorm with lightning and hail.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various
Putting to sea again, with a south-east wind and a mizzling rain, they were soon all wet to the skin.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper
About twelve o'clock there came on a mizzling heavy rain, which was very favourable for our hero's operations.
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
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