Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To rain in very fine drops; drizzle.
- noun Fine rain.
- To succumb; yield; hence, sometimes, to become tipsy.
- To disappear suddenly; decamp; run off.
- To overcome; confuse; entangle mentally.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Mist; fine rain.
- intransitive verb To rain in very fine drops; to drizzle.
- intransitive verb Slang To take one's self off; to go.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive, UK, North America To
rain in very fine drops. - noun
misty rain ordrizzle - verb chiefly UK To
abscond ,scram ,flee .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb rain lightly
- noun very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
Etymologies
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Examples
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A mizzle, drizzle, haze, what's the difference between fog and mist, etc., etc. Simon Winchester: But the language and the dictionary therefore can almost inadvertently paint a portrait of the society that uses the language.
A Back-Story to The Man Who Loved China A Coincidence Most Curious and Telling 2010
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I doubt the terms "woodshore" and "mizzle" pepper Young Adult fiction of the 21st century.
zornhau: My Eagle of the Ninth zornhau 2010
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The Liffey flowed adjacently, by the steeples of Christchurch and Adam-and-Eve's, a dirty, eddying watercourse serenaded by the seagulls and the calls of the barge-men through its mizzle and stench.
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The weather on the day we had set aside to do the count, Saturday was misty, moisty and drizzling, sort of a mizzle.
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I want to be in Fantasyland when the shizzle hits the mizzle.
Gordon Brown will not have his "standing podium-to-podium with the Messiah image." Ann Althouse 2009
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Over on the East Coast we have had rain, rain, a little more rain and that was followed up by some mizzle.
Friday Night Photos: 2009 Garden Update #4 - Little Tomatoes, Veggies, and Herbs Kalyn Denny 2009
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Sigh... and here I've been lying on a sofa in London all day with an intermittent fever watching the mizzle come down in the back garden.
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Like, I took the car for the morning newspaper run, due to mizzle.
Still damp, still writing jhetley 2006
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Not raining, just cloud and fog and mizzle, although the weather radar shows Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and western Maine getting drenched.
And the gloom abideth forever jhetley 2005
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Various sections were actually less-than-dry, but worst I actually encountered would be rated a lightish mizzle.
Gray day jhetley 2004
mollusque commented on the word mizzle
She met me in front of the house, strutting in triumph, brandishing a little key that caught a glint of sun in the hothouse mizzle.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 143
June 13, 2009
bilby commented on the word mizzle
Mist morphing into drizzle.
June 13, 2009
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word mizzle
Mizzle, a portmanteau of mist and drizzle.
January 7, 2021