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Definition of Mizzle
1. Verb. Rain lightly. "It was mizzleing all day long "; "When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant"
2. Noun. Very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower.
Definition of Mizzle
1. v. i. To rain in very fine drops.
2. n. Mist; fine rain.
Definition of Mizzle
1. Verb. (context: intransitive now regional UK North America) To rain in very fine drops. ¹
2. Noun. misty rain or drizzle ¹
3. Verb. (chiefly British) To abscond, scram, flee. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mizzle
1. to rain in fine droplets [v -ZLED, -ZLING, -ZLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mizzle
Literary usage of Mizzle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1848)
"MA THE W mizzle, OF THE INQUIRING MIND. ВТ THE LATE JOSEPH C. MEAL. ... The big
dog would bile—he did bite severely ; and thus the little mizzle added ..."
2. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"mizzle. Small r.iin, mist—" A Scotch mist, that will wet an Irishman to the skin,"
... In Cheshire also, mizzle is " small rain. Dr. Ash admits the verb to ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1889)
"mizzle an' me '11 go shares." said Dock. "Ye are allers good ter the little tricks.
... He sighed in a curious way, mizzle thought, as he spoke, ..."
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