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Pizzle vs Mizzle - What's the difference?

pizzle | mizzle |

As nouns the difference between pizzle and mizzle

is that pizzle is the penis of an animal while mizzle is misty rain or drizzle.

As a verb mizzle is

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

pizzle

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The penis of an animal.
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.19:
    • Although, if in the lion the position of the pizzle be proper, and that the natural situation, it will be hard to make out their retrocopulation, or their coupling and pissing backward, according to the determination of Aristotle [...].
  • A baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals.

    • Derived terms

    * pizzled

    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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