mizzle1
[miz-uh l]South Midland and Southern U.S.
- to rain in fine drops; drizzle; mist.
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- mist or drizzle.
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Origin of mizzle1
1475–85; cognate with dial Dutch mizzelen, Low German miseln to drizzle; akin to Middle Dutch misel mist, dew; see -le
mizzle2
[miz-uh l]
- to disappear or leave suddenly.
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Origin of mizzle2
First recorded in 1775–85; origin uncertain
mizzle3
[miz-uh l]
- to confuse; muddle.
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Origin of mizzle3
First recorded in 1575–85; origin uncertain
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Historical Examples
Go where you will, there is Mizzle, if it be in the wrong place for Mizzle's presence.
Let's mizzle, then; for I must get back to Asnires early, or else my brother Martial will smell summut.
Pass a stick through the key-hole, and it's Mizzle's eye that suffers the detriment.
Though I said in my last—wot wos true—I was jest on the mizzle for town.
You could mizzle in through the shop, run upstairs, pop through the door, downstairs next door and out through the back yard.
The Uttermost FarthingR. Austin Freeman
mizzle1
- a dialect word for drizzle
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Word Origin
C15: perhaps from Low German miseln to drizzle; compare Dutch dialect miezelen to drizzle
mizzle2
- (intr) British slang to decamp
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Word Origin
C18: of unknown origin
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