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Misy vs Miry - What's the difference?

misy | miry |

As a noun misy

is (mineralogy) an impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite.

As an adjective miry is

relating to a mire; swampy, boggy.

misy

English

Noun

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  • (mineralogy) An impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    miry

    English

    Adjective

    (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 […].

    • Synonyms

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

    Derived terms

    * miriness

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