MIZZLE

drizzle, mizzle

(noun) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower

drizzle, mizzle

(verb) rain lightly; “When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

mizzle (third-person singular simple present mizzles, present participle mizzling, simple past and past participle mizzled)

(intransitive, now dialectal, UK, North America) To rain in very fine drops.

Synonym: drizzle

Noun

mizzle (uncountable)

Misty rain or drizzle.

Etymology 2

Verb

mizzle (third-person singular simple present mizzles, present participle mizzling, simple past and past participle mizzled)

(chiefly, British) To abscond, scram, flee.

(intransitive) To yield.

(transitive) To muddle or confuse. (Probably from a misreading of past tense/participle misled.)

Source: Wiktionary


Miz"zle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mizzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mizzling.] Etym: [See Misle, and cf. Mistle.]

1. To rain in very fine drops. Spenser.

2. To take one's self off; to go. [Slang] As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled. Epigram, quoted by Wright.

Miz"zle, n.

Definition: Mist; fine rain.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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