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Mizzle

//ˈmɪzl// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Misty rain; drizzle. British, dialectal, uncountable
  2. 2
    very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower wordnet
  3. 3
    A mist; a fine spray; a spattering. uncountable

    "But he knows he need never be in dread of your blade making a mizzle of his blood or of vengeance arriving ever from this quarter[.]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To rain in very fine drops. British, Canada, US, dialectal, intransitive
  2. 2
    To abscond, scram, flee. British

    "As long as George IV could reign, he reigned, and then he mizzled."

  3. 3
    rain lightly wordnet
  4. 4
    To yield. intransitive
  5. 5
    To muddle or confuse. (Probably from a misreading of past tense/participle misled.) transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Late Middle English misellen (“to drizzle”), cognate with Low German miseln, musseln (“to mizzle”), Dutch miezelen (“to drizzle, rain gently”). Of obscure origin, possibly a frequentative related to the base of mist; or, related to Middle Low German mes (“urine”), Middle Dutch mes, mis (“urine”), both from Old Saxon mehs (“urine”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz, *mihstaz, *mihsk- (“urine”), from *mīganą (“to urinate”), from Proto-Indo-European *meiǵʰ-, *omeiǵʰ- (“to urinate”). Compare also English micturate (“to urinate”), Old Frisian mese (“urine”), Low German miegen (“to urinate”), Dutch mijgen (“to urinate”), Danish mige (“to urinate”).

Etymology 2

From Late Middle English misellen (“to drizzle”), cognate with Low German miseln, musseln (“to mizzle”), Dutch miezelen (“to drizzle, rain gently”). Of obscure origin, possibly a frequentative related to the base of mist; or, related to Middle Low German mes (“urine”), Middle Dutch mes, mis (“urine”), both from Old Saxon mehs (“urine”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz, *mihstaz, *mihsk- (“urine”), from *mīganą (“to urinate”), from Proto-Indo-European *meiǵʰ-, *omeiǵʰ- (“to urinate”). Compare also English micturate (“to urinate”), Old Frisian mese (“urine”), Low German miegen (“to urinate”), Dutch mijgen (“to urinate”), Danish mige (“to urinate”).

Etymology 3

Unknown. Perhaps from Shelta mi(e)sli (“go”).

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