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English
Etymology
From Middle English misy (“swamp, bog”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English *mȳsiġ, *mīesiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *miusiju, from Proto-Germanic *miusijō (“swamp, bog”, literally “mossy place”), from Proto-Germanic *meusą (“moss, moor”), related to Old Norse mýrr ("swamp, bog, moor"; whence English mire), Middle English mes, mease, mise, mese (“moss”), from Old English mēos (“moss”). Compare also dialectal English mizzick, mizzack, mezzack, mizuk, perhaps the same word with a suffix akin to -ock.
Noun
mizzy (plural mizzies)
- (dialectal or obsolete) A bog or quagmire.
1819, Paul Bobbin, Sequel Lanc. Dial., page 39:They draggunt meh thro' wick thurns, o'er doytch-backs un thro' mizzies, […]
1894, R. Murray Gilchrist, Dame Inowslad:For miles in every direction lay the old forest of Gardomwood, a relic of primeval woodland, rich in glades and brakes, in streamlets and mizzies.
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