mizzly, a.1
(ˈmɪzlɪ)
[f. mizzle v.1 + -y1.]
Of the nature of, or characterized by ‘mizzling’.
| 1566 J. Partridge Plasidas C iiij b, The deadly shaft through misley cloudes aloft in Skies doe flie. 1666–7 Pepys Diary 24 Jan., It proved dark, and a misly night. 1821 Coleridge in Blackw. Mag. X. 253 This..muzzy, mizly morning. 1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas I. 187 It came on mizzly, and we put on our cloaks. 1866 Blackmore Cradock Nowell xxii, A mizzly drizzly rain set in. |