mizzle
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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
The weather is still muggy as a London May—mist, mizzle, the air replete with Scotticisms, which, though fine in the descriptions of Ossian, are somewhat tiresome in real, prosaic perspective.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
Der Breitmann poot de triangel oopon his het, and whistled, Den rop de cloak around his form, and down de Corso mizzled.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey
The pack was a motley one, a canine kaleidoscope that, as it tumbled in the sunshine, showed all the various hues of ancestry from red Irish terrier to mizzled collie.
From The Three Sapphires by Fraser, W. A.
And I 'eard 'er a-giving 'im beans as 'e mizzled, much down in the mug.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
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 Clare, John
Ezra: Young carroty-pow must have been in a fine fantigue, When she found I’d mizzled.
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
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 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 Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)
It is mizzling already, Charlotte; the snow will turn into rain, and we shall have a down-pour.
From The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
This is not much like Christmas weather," he said, looking out at the cold mizzling rain; "the forecasts promise a change, however.
From Doctor Luttrell's First Patient by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
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