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Drizzle vs Mizzle - What's the difference?

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Mizzle is a synonym of drizzle.



As verbs the difference between drizzle and mizzle

is that drizzle is to rain lightly; to shed slowly in minute drops or particles while mizzle is to rain in very fine drops.

As nouns the difference between drizzle and mizzle

is that drizzle is light rain while mizzle is misty rain or drizzle.

drizzle

English

Verb

(drizzl)
  • (ambitransitive) To rain lightly; to shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The air doth drizzle dew.
  • (cooking) To pour slowly and evenly, especially with oil in cooking.
    • The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.
    The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.
  • (slang) To urinate.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Light rain.
  • (physics, weather). Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. It is sometimes accompanied by low visibility and fog.
    • No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle .
  • (slang) Water.
    • Stop drinking all of my drizzle !

    • Derived terms

    * drizzly

    mizzle

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (mizzl)
  • To rain in very fine drops.
    • Synonyms
    * (rain in very fine drops) drizzle

    Noun

    (-)
  • misty rain or drizzle

    • See also

    * mizzly

    Etymology 2

    .An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English'' (ISBN 0486122867)''Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (ISBN 0199232059)

    Verb

    (mizzl)
  • (chiefly, British) To abscond, scram, flee.
  • * 19th c. Epigram quoted by (1810 - 1877), reproduced in Webster 1902-1913:
    • As long as George IV could reign, he reigned, and then he mizzled .
  • * 1850, [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1593080638&id=ZIjn0JH0x5EC&pg=PA286&lpg=PA286&sig=pHEE_LSu9AbOSBy47FAbydKRHeo]
    • “Now you may mizzle , Jemmy (as we say at Court), and if Mr. Copperfield will take the chair I’ll operate on him.”
  • * 1986, Joan Aiken, Dido and Pa [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0618196234&id=MNEhgMsgaIMC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&sig=JAfeh2dResB-FcNOuZRJBiu0ISA]
    • “Now you better mizzle ,” Dido told him. “Get back to your own quarters, fast.”

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