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mizzle

Syllables: mizz·le/ˈmɪzl/US/ˈmɪzəl/

mizzle verb: to rain in very fine drops.

Verb (1)

mizzle (third-person singular simple present mizzles, present participle mizzling, simple past and past participle mizzled)

  1. (Canada, UK, US, dialectal, intransitive) To rain in very fine drops.
    Synonyms:
    drizzle

Noun

mizzle (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Misty rain; drizzle.
  2. A mist; a fine spray; a spattering.
    • But he knows he need never be in dread
      of your blade making a mizzle of his blood
      or of vengeance arriving ever from this quarter[.]1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 20
    • When a gawping Byzantine head bounced past his feet, and a mizzle of blood settled upon him, something changed.2023, Gordon Doherty, Strategos: Island in the Storm, Canelo + ORM

Verb (2)

mizzle (third-person singular simple present mizzles, present participle mizzling, simple past and past participle mizzled)

  1. (UK) To abscond, scram, flee.
    • As long as George IV could reign, he reigned, and then he mizzled.19th c. Epigram quoted by Thomas Wright (1810 - 1877), reproduced in Webster 1902-1913
    • “Now you may mizzle, Jemmy (as we say at Court), and if Mr. Copperfield will take the chair I’ll operate on him.”1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To yield.
  3. (transitive) To muddle or confuse. (Probably from a misreading of past tense/participle misled.)

mizzle meaning in Urdu

mizzle in Urdu

ہلکی پھوار, بھاگ جانا, چمپت ہونا, فرار ہونا

Synonyms of mizzle

Forms of mizzle

third-person singular presentmizzles
present participlemizzling
past participlemizzled
pastmizzled

Origin of mizzle

From Late Middle English misellen (“to drizzle”), cognate with Low German miseln, musseln (“to mizzle”), Dutch miezelen (“to drizzle, rain gently”). Of obscure origin, possibly a frequentative related to the base of mist; or, related to Middle Low German mes (“urine”), Middle Dutch mes, mis (“urine”), both from Old Saxon mehs (“urine”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz, *mihstaz, *mihsk- (“urine”), from *mīganą (“to urinate”), from Proto-Indo-European *meiǵʰ-, *omeiǵʰ- (“to urinate”). Compare also English micturate (“to urinate”), Old Frisian mese (“urine”), Low German miegen (“to urinate”), Dutch mijgen (“to urinate”), Danish mige (“to urinate”).

Unknown. Perhaps from Shelta mi(e)sli (“go”).

Words formed from mizzle

Words that rhyme with mizzle

Questions about mizzle

What does mizzle mean?
Mizzle means to rain in very fine drops.
What is mizzle in Urdu?
Mizzle in Urdu is ہلکی پھوار, بھاگ جانا, چمپت ہونا. See Mizzle meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is mizzle?
Mizzle can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce mizzle?
Mizzle is pronounced /ˈmɪzl/ (UK).
What is the past tense of mizzle?
The past tense of mizzle is mizzled.

Words near mizzle in the dictionary

  1. mizzentopmasts
  2. mizzentopmen
  3. mizzentops
  4. mizzes
  5. mizzies
  6. mizzle
  7. mizzled
  8. mizzler
  9. mizzlers
  10. mizzles
  11. mizzling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mizzle (page history and authors); mizzle (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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