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Mizzled vs Mizzle - What's the difference?

mizzled | mizzle |

As verbs the difference between mizzled and mizzle

is that mizzled is (mizzle) or mizzled can be (humorous) while mizzle is to rain in very fine drops or mizzle can be (chiefly|british) to abscond, scram, flee.

As a noun mizzle is

misty rain or drizzle.

mizzled

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)
  • (mizzle)

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (humorous)

    • 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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