Mery vs Miry - What's the difference?
mery | miry |
* 1533, R. Saltwood:
Relating to a mire; swampy, boggy.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.10:
*:Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
* 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), :
*:summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […].
As adjectives the difference between mery and miry
is that mery is obsolete form of lang=en while miry is relating to a mire; swampy, boggy.mery
English
Adjective
- As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.