mizzle

[ UK /mˈɪzə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
VERB
  1. rain lightly
    When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant
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How To Use mizzle In A Sentence

  • Directly under and beside the staff was the legend "Don't be misled"; to Charlie, "mizzled" meant to be sort of wobbly and confused, like those lines. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
  • A blue bird's-eye o'er dairies fine -- as she mizzled through Temple Bar, [2] Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
  • For example he had for years pronounced the word "misled" as, "mizzled." for a reason which demonstrates the clarity of his logic if nothing else: as a child he had seen on a box of English biscuits the picture of a trumpeter, from whose instrument came a staff of music with the staff drawn in wavy lines, probably to convey the idea of a fanfare in vibrato. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
  • The weather on the day we had set aside to do the count, Saturday was misty, moisty and drizzling, sort of a mizzle. GBBC* 2009 « Fairegarden
  • The two yaller pullets have slipped you; the abigail mizzled to the funeral with your niece, and t'other dell must have smelt us, and hopped the twig. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
  • 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
  • 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. When a tall ship comes to town (2)
  • The gray skies have lingered all day, but it has not rained or even mizzled.
  • The sun no doubt had risen, but it was a dreary lightless morning, with a rain that never entirely ceased, but dripped from trees and mizzled between the showers. At Swim, Two Boys
  • 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."
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