mizzle

The murk and mizzle kept the players off for almost three hours, though the break did little to stall England's momentum.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024

Yet for the Seahawks the murk and mizzle of this grey Wembley evening felt like a home from home as they pummelled the Oakland Raiders 27-3.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2018

We have many names for rain, from mizzle to drizzle, torrents to downpours.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2017

After a warm, moonlit night the mist and mizzle descended, making it impossible to judge the moment when the sun rose over the Wiltshire plain without an accurate watch.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2013

"How will it be," he had said, "if they mizzle?"

From The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope

During the trial she mizzled, and has not, I believe, been heard of since.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various

Ezra: Young carroty-pow must have been in a fine fantigue, When she found I’d mizzled.

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

The maids in haste Snatch from the orchard hedge the mizzled clothes And laughing hurry in to keep them dry.

From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare

"But why has he mizzled over the wall?"

From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Louis Tracy

How monarchs die is easily explained, For thus upon their tombs it might be chiselled; As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled!

From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Mark Lemon

By the time I left the cathedral it was already dark, mizzling, the kind of rain that looks like mist but drenches you in minutes.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019

There is page after page of italic script describing in wonderful language the "mizzling rain", "gleamings" of sunshine and "prismatic solar halos".

From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2012

The weather, which had been clear during the passage home, now altered its appearance; and a dark sky, thick fog, and mizzling, cold rain, intimated their approach to the English shore.

From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat

"The mizzling rain turned to a downpour when I was halfway up the hill, but I will be ready for dinner in twenty minutes."

From The Measure of a Man by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill

That very same night, a cold mizzling rain began to fall, and the autumn set in with a violent wind.

From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur