Meanings
mizzle1
present singular third person mizzles · participle present mizzling · participle past mizzled · past mizzled
- uncountableA mist; a fine spray; a spattering.
When a gawping Byzantine head bounced past his feet, and a mizzle of blood settled upon him, something changed.
2023, Gordon Doherty, Strategos: Island in the Storm, Canelo + ORM1 more example
But he knows he need never be in dread of your blade making a mizzle of his blood or of vengeance arriving ever from this quarter[.]
1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 20
mizzle2
present singular third person mizzles · participle present mizzling · participle past mizzled · past mizzled
- UKTo abscond, scram, flee.
1986, Joan Aiken, Dido and Pa http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0618196234&id=MNEhgMsgaIMC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&sig=JAfeh2dResB-FcNOuZRJBiu0ISA “Now you better mizzle,” Dido told him. “Get back to your own quarters, fast.”
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As long as George IV could reign, he reigned, and then he mizzled.
19th c. Epigram quoted by Thomas Wright (1810 - 1877), reproduced in Webster 1902-1913“Now you may mizzle, Jemmy (as we say at Court), and if Mr. Copperfield will take the chair I’ll operate on him.”
1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC - intransitiveTo yield.
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo rain in very fine drops.
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Origin
mizzle · verb, noun
- Proto-Indo-European*meiǵʰ-
- Proto-Germanic*mihstuz
- Middle Dutchmes
- Middle Low Germanmes“urine”
- Middle Englishmisellen“to drizzle”
- Englishmizzle
From Late Middle English misellen (“to drizzle”), cognate with Low German miseln, musseln (“to mizzle”), Dutch miezelen (“to drizzle, rain gently”). Of obscure origin, possibly a frequentative related to the base of mist; or, related to Middle Low German mes (“urine”), Middle Dutch mes, mis (“urine”), both from Old Saxon mehs (“urine”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz, *mihstaz, *mihsk- (“urine”), from *mīganą (“to urinate”), from Proto-Indo-European *meiǵʰ-, *omeiǵʰ- (“to urinate”). Compare also English micturate (“to urinate”), Old Frisian mese (“urine”), Low German miegen (“to urinate”), Dutch mijgen (“to urinate”), Danish mige (“to urinate”).
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Full word history & related roots →mizzle · verb
- Sheltami(e)sli“go”
- Englishmizzle
Unknown. Perhaps from Shelta mi(e)sli (“go”).
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian ръмя, ръмеж
- ръмя (rămja)to rain in fine drops
- ръмеж (rămež)misty rain
Dutch miezeren
- miezerento rain in fine drops
Finnish tihkuttaa, tihkusade
- tihkuttaato rain in fine drops
- tihkusademisty rain
Italian pioggerellina
- pioggerellinamisty rain
Russian мороси́ть, и́зморось
- мороси́ть (morosítʹ)to rain in fine drops
- и́зморось (ízmorosʹ)misty rain
Spanish lloviznar, llovizna
- lloviznarto rain in fine drops
- lloviznamisty rain
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with mizzle
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Cite this entry
mizzle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mizzle
“mizzle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mizzle. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mizzle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mizzle.
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