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mirey

mirey is the alternative form of miry.

Meaning of miry

Adjective

miry (comparative mirier, superlative miriest)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.
    • Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of mirey

comparativemore mirey
superlativemost mirey

Questions about mirey

What is mirey the alternative form of?
Mirey is the alternative form of miry.

Words near mirey in the dictionary

  1. Mirenda
  2. mirepoix
  3. mirepoixs
  4. mires
  5. mirex
  6. mirey
  7. Mireșu Mare
  8. Mirfak
  9. Mirfanda
  10. Mirfandas
  11. mirfentanil

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