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mizzly

English

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WOTD – 22 March 2024

Etymology

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From mizzle (noun) +‎ -y (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense ‘behaving like, or having natures typical of [the nouns]’).[1]

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Adjective

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mizzly (comparative more mizzly, superlative most mizzly)

  1. (British, chiefly dialectal) Raining in the form of mizzle (“misty rain; drizzle”); drizzly.
    • 1667 February 3 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 24th, 1666–1667”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume VI, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC, page 146:
      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.
    • 1865 May – 1866 August, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, chapter XXII, in Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 211:
      A mizzly, drizzly rain set in before the poor people got home that evening with the body of Clayton Nowell.
    • 2021 December 15, Paul Clifton, “There is Nothing You can Do: A Scotrail Driver”, in Rail, number 946, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 35–36:
      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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References

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  1. ^ “mizzly, adj.1”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “mizzly, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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