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Examples of mizzle
mizzle
The home support are enjoying themselves this evening, despite the seasonal mizzle.
From the guardian.co.uk
Mizzle held things up in the morning and torrential stuff finished things off before the tea interval.
From the guardian.co.uk
A few naked bulbs strung in the branches light the orchard and the rows of trees shine eerily silver in the mizzle.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Mizzle is right it takes two morons to have a race?
From the latimes.com
The light's failing, the mizzle unceasing.
From the guardian.co.uk
One strip between the 22-metre lines under the main stand's overhang was short on grass and, as the mizzle blew in from the west, it was the season, rather than the weather, that held any cheer.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Drizzle: rain lightly; "When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant"
- Drizzle: very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
- Drizzle is a light rain precipitation consisting of liquid water drops smaller than those of rain, and generally smaller than 0.5 mm (0.02 in.) in diameter. Drizzle is normally produced by low stratiform clouds and stratocumulus clouds. ...
- Misty rain or drizzle; To rain in very fine drops; To abscond, scram, flee
- (Mizzling) A term used by Henry David Thoreau to describe weather combining thick mist and drizzle: a mizzling rain. North American usage may be peculiar to New England. Term is also found in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey. (Thanks to Hal Noakes for the Austen information.)
