miry
See also: míry
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English myry, equivalent to mire + -y.
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miry (comparative mirier, superlative miriest)
- Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy. [from 14th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
- 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
- summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […]
- 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
- Beyond the bazaar one could see the huge, miry river."
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boggy, marshy
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miry
- Alternative form of mery
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miry
- Alternative form of mery