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 Thomas Moore
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 W. A. Fraser
"But why has he mizzled over the wall?"
From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Louis Tracy
I kud smell the thing afore I wur half-way, an’ when I got near it, the birds mizzled.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
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 Charles Godfrey Leland
It has rained or mizzled all day, as my pockets feel.
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
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
Putting to sea again, with a south-east wind and a mizzling rain, they were soon all wet to the skin.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper
"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
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