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Meaning of mizzly | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
ˈmɪzli

Definitions

Raining in the form of mizzle (“misty rain; drizzle”); drizzly.

British, dialectal

Equivalents

Suomi tihkuinen

Examples

“As late as it was, yet Rolt and Harris would go home to-night, and walked it, though I had a bed for them; and it proved, dark, and a misly night, and very windy.”
“A mizzly, drizzly rain set in before the poor people got home that evening with the body of Clayton Nowell.”
“Today is a very mizzly day. Damp in the air, but not actually raining. That's the worst for driving trains in the leaf fall season.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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