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▪ I. mizzle, n.1|ˈmɪz(ə)l|
Forms: 5 mysell, 7 misle, 9 mizzle.
[f. mizzle v.1 Cf. MDu. mysel dew.]
Slight or drizzling rain, drizzle.
1490Caxton Eneydos xv. 55 And tormented [them] Rygth asperly with Rayne mysell, and grete heyle stones amonge. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. xii. 49 Snow and Misle. Ibid. ii. xii. 322 A misle of Vapour or Fume may be extenuated into some hundreds [of miles] at least. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) vi. iii, A mist which successively becomes a mizzle a drizzle a shower a rain a torrent. 1860All Year Round No. 72. 512 The sorts of rain are natural (as cat-and-dog-rains, showers and mizzle) and unnatural. 1886S. W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., There was a bit of a mizzle. a1963S. Plath Crossing Water (1971) 34 This mizzle fits me like a sad jacket. 1975P. G. Winslow Death of Angel x. 204 The neighbours would not be likely to air themselves in their gardens in a steady mizzle.
▪ II. mizzle, n.2 rare.
[f. mizzle v.2]
Phr. to do a mizzle: to depart suddenly.
1923J. Manchon Le Slang 195 To do a mizzle, se trotter, se barrer.
▪ III. mizzle, v.1 dial.|ˈmɪz(ə)l|
Forms: 5– misel(le, my(s)sylle, 6 mizsel(l, mysle, myssel, mesel, misell, 6–8 misle, 7 mizell, 7–9 mizle, mistle, 8 meazle, 9 measle, mezel, 6– mizzle.
[Recorded only from the end of the 15th c.; cogn. w. the synonymous Du. dial. miezelen, WFlem. mizzelen, mijzelen, LG. miseln, museln; a frequentative formation with the suffix -le 3; the base is found also in Du. dial. miesregen drizzle, miezig, miezerig, LG. misig, drizzly.]
1. intr. (impers.) To rain in very fine drops, drizzle. Also to mizzle of rain.
1483Cath. Angl. 241/2 To Miselle (A. Mysylle), pluuitare, pluuitinare. 1530Palsgr. 130 Il brvýne, it misleth. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Nov. 208 Up, Colin, up! Now gynnes to mizzle, hye we homeward fast. 1606Holland Sueton. 79 If it chanced to mizzle of raine, hee tooke that for a luckie signe. 1662Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 48 The raine..came not drizling or mizling downe vpon me; but [etc.]. 1711–12Swift Jrnl. to Stella 24 Mar., It has rained or mizzled all day. 1721Bailey, To Misle, (q.d. to mistle, i.e. to rain in a Mist, of Mieselen, Du.) to rain small. 1852Miss Mitford Recoll. I. 81 On the morning in question, it did not absolutely rain, it only mizzled.
†2. trans. Of a cloud (also impers.): To send down in a drizzling shower. Obs.
1584Lyly Sappho iv. iii. 59 It seemed to mysell gold, with faire drops. 1592Warner Alb. Eng. viii. xxxix. (1612) 192 Some Cloudes but misell Rayne.
▪ IV. mizzle, v.2 slang.|ˈmɪz(ə)l|
Also in ‘Shelta’ form misli.
[Of obscure origin: the Shelta misli ‘to go’ has been assigned as the source, but this may be from Eng.]
intr. To disappear suddenly; to run or slink away, decamp, vanish, take oneself off; also imp. = be off! Also dial. ‘to succumb, to yield, to give up’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.) and trans. in Naut. phr. to mizzle one's dick: to miss one's passage.
1781G. Parker View Society II. 231 He preferred mizzling off to France. 1823W. T. Moncrieff Tom & Jerry i. iv. (1828) 20 Now then Dicky, mizzle!—be scarce!—broom! 1842Barham Lay St. Cuthbert in Ingol. Leg. 2nd Ser. 229 Come, mizzle!—be off with you!—go! 1849Dickens Dav. Copp. (1850) xxii. 236 Now you may mizzle, Jemmy (as we say at Court). 1853R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour i, It was a murky October day that..Mr. Sponge..was seen mizzling along Oxford Street. 1863C. St. John Nat. Hist. Moray 78 When it saw us the trout immediately turned itself round, and mizzled back into the pool it had come from. 1891Carew No. 747, xxxvii. 434 Misli in an 'our and a 'arf. 1904A. Lang in Morn. Post 6 Feb., He mizzled into the general company, and I hope he enjoyed his luncheon. 1925J. Masefield Sard Harker iii. 134 He had broken his word..and missed his passage; ‘mizzled his dick’, as Pompey Hopkins called it. 1970‘R. Llewellyn’ But we didn't get Fox iii. 47 There was a girl with him... He fell behind the table, and she mizzled.
▪ V. mizzle, v.3 Obs. exc. dial. rare.|ˈmɪz(ə)l|
Forms: 6 mizzel, misle, 7 mizel, 9– mizzle.
[A frequentative formation, perh. suggested by mizmaze.]
trans. To confuse, muddle; † to make tipsy; also, to mystify (a person); to give (one) wrong information.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 87 Their heades preteley mizzeled with wine. 1599Porter Angry Wom. Abingt. (Percy Soc.) 48 What though he be mump, misled, blind..? tis no consequent to me. 1601Bp. W. Barlow Defence 81 They were by their owne ignorance mizeled, or by their blind guides miss-led. 1876T. M. Bound Provinc. Heref. (E.D.D.).
▪ VI. mizzle, v.4 Sc.|ˈmɪz(ə)l|
Also 9 mizle, misle.
[Var. of measle v.; early mod.Flemish (Kilian) has maschelen ‘reddish spots contracted in winter when the legs are put too near the fire’.]
trans. To make spotty. Hence ˈmizzled ppl. a., said esp. of the legs when discoloured by sitting too near the fire; also ˈmizzly a.2 in the same sense.
1801W. Beattie Fruits Time Parings, Yule Feast, May the French for their ambition Get mizzled shins. 1805A. Scott Poems 146 (Jam.) Oft have I blawn the danders quick Their mizlie shins amang. 1808in Jamieson. 1832A. Henderson Prov. 47 Bare shouthers mak mizzled shins.
▪ VII. mizzle, v.5|ˈmɪz(ə)l|
[Perh. f. moan v. + grizzle v.2; cf. misery.]
intr. To complain, whimper; used also of fretful children.
a1935T. E. Lawrence Mint (1950) i. xiv. 49 The question took a self-pitiful turn, and I mizzled gently in the white-walled silence. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. vi. 134 To complain: to mizzle and to whinge (whence come the nouns mizzler and whinger, and the verbal nouns mizzling and whingeing).
▪ VIII. mizzle
Sc. form of muzzle v. |