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misly

misly is the alternative spelling of mizzly.

Meaning of mizzly

Adjective

mizzly (comparative more mizzly, superlative most mizzly)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Raining in the form of mizzle (“misty rain; drizzle”); drizzly.
    • As late as it was, yet Rolt and Harris would go home to-night, and walked it, though I had a bed for them; and it proved, dark, and a misly night, and very windy.1667 February 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 24th, 1666–1667”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume...

Forms of misly

comparativemore misly
superlativemost misly

Questions about misly

What is misly the alternative spelling of?
Misly is the alternative spelling of mizzly.

Words near misly in the dictionary

  1. mislubricating
  2. misluck
  3. mislucked
  4. mislucking
  5. mislucks
  6. misly
  7. mislying
  8. mismachine
  9. mismachined
  10. mismachines
  11. mismachining

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misly (page history and authors); mizzly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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