mizzled

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

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
2. (intransitive) To yield.
3. (transitive) To muddle or confuse. (Probably from a misreading of past tense/participle misled.)

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