noun
Meaning 1
Misty rain; drizzle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mizzle
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɪzl/
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General-American: /ˈmɪzəl/
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rhymes with -ɪzəl
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homophone: misle
noun
Meaning 2
A mist; a fine spray; a spattering.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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verb
Meaning 3
To rain in very fine drops.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, UK, US, dialectal, intransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: drizzle
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To abscond, scram, flee.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Examples
- 1986, Joan Aiken, Dido and Pa http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0618196234&id=MNEhgMsgaIMC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&sig=JAfeh2dResB-FcNOuZRJBiu0ISA “Now you better mizzle,” Dido told him. “Get back to your own quarters, fast.”
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verb
Meaning 5
To yield.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To muddle or confuse. (Probably from a misreading of past tense/participle misled.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 7
very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: drizzle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rain, rainfall
verb
Meaning 8
rain lightly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: drizzle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rain, rain down
History
Etymology
From Late Middle English misellen (“to drizzle”), cognate with Low German miseln, musseln (“to mizzle”), Dutch miezelen (“to drizzle, rain gently”). Of obscure origin, possibly a frequentative related to the base of mist; or, related to Middle Low German mes (“urine”), Middle Dutch mes, mis (“urine”), both from Old Saxon mehs (“urine”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz, *mihstaz, *mihsk- (“urine”), from *mīganą (“to urinate”), from Proto-Indo-European *meiǵh-, *omeiǵh- (“to urinate”). Compare also English micturate (“to urinate”), Old Frisian mese (“urine”), Low German miegen (“to urinate”), Dutch mijgen (“to urinate”), Danish mige (“to urinate”).
Unknown. Perhaps from Shelta mi(e)sli (“go”).
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: ръмеж (rǎmež) — misty rain
- Finnish: tihkusade — misty rain
- Galician: orballo — misty rain
- Italian: pioggerellina — misty rain
- Russian: и́зморось (ízmorosʹ) — misty rain
- Spanish: llovizna — misty rain
- Bulgarian: ръмя (rǎmja) — to rain in fine drops
- Dutch: miezeren — to rain in fine drops
- Finnish: tihkuttaa — to rain in fine drops
- Galician: orballar — to rain in fine drops
- Russian: мороси́ть (morosítʹ) — to rain in fine drops
- Spanish: lloviznar — to rain in fine drops