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mistling

mistling is the present participle and gerund of mistle.

Meaning of mistle

Verb

mistle (third-person singular simple present mistles, present participle mistling, simple past and past participle mistled)

  1. To fall like a fine rain; to drizzle.

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Questions about mistling

What is mistling the present participle and gerund of?
Mistling is the present participle and gerund of mistle.

Words near mistling in the dictionary

  1. mistletoeing
  2. mistletoes
  3. mistletos
  4. Mistley
  5. mistlike
  6. mistling
  7. mistnet
  8. mistnets
  9. mistokenize
  10. mistokenized
  11. mistokenizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mistling (page history and authors); mistle (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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