Miry vs Mixy - What's the difference?

miry | mixy |

As adjectives the difference between miry and mixy

is that miry is relating to a mire; swampy, boggy while mixy is mixed; various.

(er)

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 […].

* (like a mire) boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy

* miriness

(en adjective)

(informal) mixed; various

* (Rudyard Kipling), How the Alphabet was Made

"That's a mixy noise. The end part is ah-carp-fish-mouth; but what can we do about the front part? Yer-yer-yer and ah! Ya!"

(informal) Tending to mix with others.

* 1899 , Abby Morton Diaz, The William Henry letters

My Bettina rather held back. She isn't one of the mixy kind.