mizzle

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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”).

Verb

mizzle (third-person singular simple present mizzles, present participle mizzling, simple past and past participle mizzled)

  1. (intransitive, British, Canada, US, chiefly dialectal) To rain in very fine drops.
    Synonym: drizzle
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Noun

mizzle (uncountable)

  1. (British, chiefly dialectal) Misty rain; drizzle.
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Etymology 2

Unknown. Perhaps from Shelta mi(e)sli (“go”).[1][2]

Verb

mizzle (third-person singular simple present mizzles, present participle mizzling, simple past and past participle mizzled)

  1. (chiefly British) To abscond, scram, flee.
    • 19th c. Epigram quoted by Thomas Wright (1810 - 1877), reproduced in Webster 1902-1913:
      As long as George IV could reign, he reigned, and then he mizzled.
    • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, , published 1850, →OCLC:
      “Now you may mizzle, Jemmy (as we say at Court), and if Mr. Copperfield will take the chair I’ll operate on him.”
    • 1986, Joan Aiken, Dido and Pa
      “Now you better mizzle,” Dido told him. “Get back to your own quarters, fast.”
  2. (intransitive) To yield.
  3. (transitive) To muddle or confuse. (Probably from a misreading of past tense/participle misled.)

References

  1. ^ An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English →ISBN
  2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang →ISBN
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