mizzle1
/ˈmɪz(ə)l
/chiefly dialect
noun [mass noun]
Light rain; drizzle: the stillness that comes with a Cornish mizzle
verb [no object] (it mizzles, it is mizzling, etc.)
Rain lightly: it was mizzling steadily...
- Even as the drizzle mizzles down relentlessly on the site, it is a truly Arcadian setting.
- Yesterday and today have been gorgeous, blue skies, small clouds and only mizzled this morning for a short while.
- Moreover, chocolate can be dissolved by heat from below then vertically transferred to the top of the fountain, where it then mizzles downward the tiers.
Derivatives
mizzly
/ adjective ...- It was a grey, mizzly day and I had no good reason to go out at all.
- ‘Okay, why don't you stop us,’ he mocked, but something skittish and shamed began to leak into his eyes, a grey, mizzly vapor that snuffed out all the light.
- Through his mizzly eyes he saw her handkerchief.
Origin
Late Middle English (as a verb): probably a frequentative from the base of mist; compare with Low German miseln and Dutch dialect miezelen.
Rhymes
mizzle2
/ˈmɪz(ə)l/verb [no object] British informal, dated
Go away suddenly; vanish: he mizzled into the crowd
Origin
Late 18th century: of unknown origin.