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Wirier vs Mirier - What's the difference?

wirier | mirier |

As adjectives the difference between wirier and mirier

is that wirier is (wiry) while mirier is (rare) (miry).

wirier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (wiry)

    • wiry

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Thin, muscular and flexible.
    • Don't fight him. He may be small, but he's wiry .

    mirier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (rare) (miry)

    • 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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