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
Let me advise you to mizzle, for, if you don't, I'm blowed if I don't divide a whole jug of cold water equally amongst you.
From Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees
"The two yaller pullets have slipped you; the abigail mizzled to the funeral with your niece, and t'other dell must have smelt us, and hopped the twig."
From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend
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
The maids in haste Snatch from the orchard hedge the mizzled clothes And laughing hurry in to keep them dry.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare
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
The pack was a motley one, a canine kaleidoscope that, as it tumbled in the sunshine, showed all the various hues of ancestry from red Irish terrier to mizzled collie.
From The Three Sapphires by W. A. Fraser
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
We then returned to the wood in a mizzling rain and fog, for the weather had changed, and the frost had broken up.
From Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat
This is not much like Christmas weather," he said, looking out at the cold mizzling rain; "the forecasts promise a change, however.
From Doctor Luttrell's First Patient by Rosa Nouchette Carey
Pens don't melt into the air: pens are not in the habit of mizzling away into nothing.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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