Meaning of mizzle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To abscond, scram, flee.
   British
2. To rain in very fine drops.
   British, Canada, US, dialectal, intransitive
3. To yield.
   intransitive
4. To muddle or confuse. (Probably from a misreading of past tense/participle misled.)
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

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

““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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