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
Slope, mizzle, cut your stick; don't you understand.
From Mistress and Maid by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
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
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
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
It has rained or mizzled all day, as my pockets feel.
From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan
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
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
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
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 Marryat, Frederick
The thunder was much louder than last night's, and a slight mizzling rain for about an hour fell.
From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Giles, Ernest
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