mizzly
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- 30
- Letters
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/ˈmɪzli/
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/ˈmɪzli/ · /ˈmɪz(ə)li/
Definition of mizzly
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(British, dialectal)Raining in the form of mizzle (“misty rain; drizzle”); drizzly.
“As late as it was, yet Rolt and Harris would go home to-night, and walked it, though I had a bed for them; and it proved, dark, and a misly night, and very windy.”
“A mizzly, drizzly rain set in before the poor people got home that evening with the body of Clayton Nowell.”
“Today is a very mizzly day. Damp in the air, but not actually raining. That's the worst for driving trains in the leaf fall season.”
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Etymology
From mizzle (noun) + -y (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense ‘behaving like, or having natures typical of [the nouns]’).
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