miryadj.

Brit.

/ˈmʌɪ(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈmaɪ(ə)ri/

Forms: Middle English mere, Middle English meri, Middle English mury, Middle English myiry, Middle English–1500s myry, Middle English–1500s myrye, Middle English– miry, 1500s myerie, 1500s myerry, 1500s–1600s mierie, 1500s–1600s mirie, 1500s–1600s myery, 1500s–1600s myrie, 1500s–1700s miery, 1600s merie, 1700s– mirey; Scottish pre-1700 myrie, pre-1700 myry, 1700s– miry.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mire n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < mire n.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare mire adj.

a. Of the nature of mire or swampy ground; boggy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] > mire

mirya1398

mire?1440

fennish1577

spewing1610

mirish1630

poachy1707

poached1793

pugged1843

squoggy1950

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 151^v Vlula..is a bridde of the mareys & woneth in myry place.

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iii. 2395 (MED) Off auenture a meri ground he fond, The water trouble and bloodi off colour.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 108 Yat jt [sc. the castle] be nocht..jn our harde dry territoire, or our myry erde.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxxxi^v The Feelde where the Hooste laye was so wete and Myry, that Men, and Bestys were to greuoslye noyed.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. x. sig. V7 Onely these marishes, and myrie bogs, In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres.

1622 S. Ward Woe to Drunkards (1627) 38 Though the pit bee deepe, merie and narrow.

1684 I. Mather Ess. Illustrious Provid. (1846) 28 Being in this swamp that was miry, I slumpt in and fell down.

1750 M. Clancy Sharper 77 Have I brav'd Seas, and Storms, and Hurricanes to be at last drown'd in a small miery Ditch.

1833 T. Hood Epping Hunt lxxvii Some fell in miry bogs.

1847 J. W. Buhoup Narr. Central Division vi. 46 We were somewhat detained, in consequence of having to pass a miry piece of ground on our road.

1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood iv Cattle..soon turned both outfield and infield into a miry wilderness.

1997 Church Times 4 July 23/3 Those who dwelt in his and my farmsteads then would have been cursing the miry dip which separated them, and how it clung to water.

b. In figurative context.

ΚΠ

1602 F. Herring tr. J. Oberndorf Anatomyes True Physition 5 Ouer head and eares in the myrie puddle of grosse Ignorance.

1816 E. Payson Diary 16 Dec. in A. Cummings Mem. Rev. E. Payson (1830) xix. 364 God was pleased to..raise me up out of the horrible pit and miry clay.

1994 Guideposts Aug. 15 He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog.

a. Full of mud or mire; muddy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] > mire > abounding in

slag1440

miryc1443

muddyc1450

filthy1566

mire1673

sloughy1704

sleechy1792

guttery1808

slubby1823

grooty1848

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 295 (MED) He ouȝte vse þe louȝer wey, þouȝ ellis it were to hym worse wey by cause it is weet and sumwhat myiry.

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 335 (MED) Þe strete þat he rade in was passand myrye.

1555 R. Eden tr. S. von Herberstein Rerum moscouiticarum commentarii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 292 The citie is very large and wyde: and also very slabby and myrie.

1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 40 As the cleere and vnmuddie water that glydeth with a quiet streame, differeth from troubled and myrie froth.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 135 Women footing it in the mierie streets.

1670 J. A. Comenius Janua Ling. Triling. 774 The broad streets themselves paved with stones, that the walks be not miry.

1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 16 Deep thro' a miry Lane she pick'd her Way.

1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 188 As I went in barefooted, I found the miry stuff stick to my feet.

1833 H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. i When the days get damp and dark, and the roads miry.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) i. 80 It is even more grim and wild than you had anticipated,..in the spring everywhere wet and miry.

1913 J. Muir Story of my Boyhood ii. 59 Just after the spring thaw, the roads over the prairies were heavy and miry.

1984 B. Breytenbach Mouroir 112 In strategic places along the miry streets poles have been erected.

†b. In figurative context. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adjective] > unpleasant

loatha700

unsweetc890

grimlyc893

unquemeOE

un-i-quemeOE

evila1131

sourc1175

illc1220

unhightlyc1275

unwelcomec1325

unblithec1330

unnetc1330

unrekena1350

unagreeablec1374

uncouthc1380

unsavouryc1380

displeasantc1386

unlikinga1398

ungaina1400

crabbedc1400

unlovelyc1400

displeasing1401

eschewc1420

unsoot1420

mislikinga1425

unlikelya1425

unlustya1425

fastidiousc1425

unpleasantc1430

displicable1471

unthankfulc1475

displeasant1481

uneasy1483

unpleasinga1500

unfaring1513

badc1530

malpleasant?1533

noisome1542

thanklessa1547

ungrate1548

untoothsome1548

ungreeable1550

contrary1561

disagreeable1570

offensible1575

offensive1576

naughty1578

delightlessa1586

undelightful1585

unwisheda1586

unpleasurable1587

undelightsomec1595

dislikeful1596

disliking1596

ungrateful1596

unsweet?a1600

distastive1600

impleasing1602

distasting1603

distasteful1607

unsightly1608

undelectable1610

disgustful1611

unrelishing1611

waspisha1616

undeliciousa1618

unwished-for1617

disrelishing1631

unenjoyed1643

unjoyous1645

mirya1652

unwelcomed1651

unpleasivea1656

sweet1656

injucund1657

insuave1657

unpalatable1658

unhandsome1660

undesirable1667

disrelishablea1670

uncouthsome1684

shocking1703

nasty1705

embittering1746

indelectable1751

undelightinga1774

nice and ——1796

unenjoyablea1797

ungenial1796

uncomplacent1805

ungracious1807

bitter1810

rotten1813

uncongenial1813

quarrelsome1825

grimy1833

nice1836

unrelished1863

bloody1867

unbewitching1876

ferocious1877

displeasurable1879

rebarbative1892

charming1893

crook1898

naar1900

peppery1901

negative1902

poisonous1906

off-putting1935

unsympathetic1937

piggy1942

funky1946

umpty1948

pooey1967

minging1970

Scrooge-like1976

sucky1984

stank1991

stanky1991

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) i. i. 11 Several steps and ascents out of this miry cave of mortality.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 301 Quickly involve in the miry sloughs of disappointment.

†3. Covered or spattered with mud or mire. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > muddy

fennyc897

bymodereda1307

slutchedc1400

muddyc1450

miry?c1475

slabby1542

mired1558

mudded1598

muddied1642

mucksy1665

shabby1705

sludgy1782

slushy1791

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 81^v Myry, cenosus, cenolentus merdosus.

1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. giv [The hunter] his clothes torne wete shode all myry.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 318/2 Myerry or dirty, berayed with dyrte, boueux.

a1535 J. Fisher Serm. Good Friday in Spirituall Consol. (?1578) sig. F.viij If you be ashamed for a foule myrie shoo, and not of a foule stincking soule.

1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 3 When late their miry Sides Stage-Coaches show.

1725 E. Haywood Bath-intrigues i. 8 He found himself obligd to walk to his lodgings in the most miry and piteous condition.

1864 R. A. Arnold Hist. Cotton Famine 54 Hodge comes in all miry from his work.

1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. v. 100 Riding slack..ajog homeward from the miry hunt.

†4. figurative. Dirty, defiled, polluted; despicable. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective]

blackOE

rotea1382

lousyc1386

unwashed?a1390

fulsomec1390

filthy?c1400

rankc1400

leprousa1425

sicka1425

miry1532

shitten?1545

murrain1575

obscene1597

vicious1597

ketty1607

putrid1628

putredinous1641

foede1657

fulsamic1694

carrion1826

foul1842

shitty1879

scabrous1880

scummy1932

pukey1933

shitting1950

gungy1962

grungy1965

shithouse1966

grot1967

bogging1973

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 614/1 Tindall..layeth hys myrye handes vpon the knowen catholike churche of Christ.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. ii. 10 Beyond that myrie heap of earthie waters.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems 253 Miry clods of this accursed earth Whose dull suffusions make her often sown.

1877 E. Johnson Antiqua Mater 69 A name under which men drove a miry business.

†5. Dirty in colour. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1850 Zoologist 8 2644 Those [sc. eggs] of the plover were somewhat discoloured, and were beginning to get what may be called miry.

Compounds

† miry-mouthed adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 5 Thinke you this myrie mouthed mate, a partaker of heauenly inspiration, that thus aboundes in his vncharitable railings.

† miry wet adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 332 The ground..had better be dry, than mirey wet.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	miry
释义	miryadj. Brit. /ˈmʌɪ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈmaɪ(ə)ri/ Forms: Middle English mere, Middle English meri, Middle English mury, Middle English myiry, Middle English–1500s myry, Middle English–1500s myrye, Middle English– miry, 1500s myerie, 1500s myerry, 1500s–1600s mierie, 1500s–1600s mirie, 1500s–1600s myery, 1500s–1600s myrie, 1500s–1700s miery, 1600s merie, 1700s– mirey; Scottish pre-1700 myrie, pre-1700 myry, 1700s– miry. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mire n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < mire n.¹ + -y suffix¹. Compare mire adj. 1. a. Of the nature of mire or swampy ground; boggy. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] > mire mirya1398 mire?1440 fennish1577 spewing1610 mirish1630 poachy1707 poached1793 pugged1843 squoggy1950 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 151^v Vlula..is a bridde of the mareys & woneth in myry place. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iii. 2395 (MED) Off auenture a meri ground he fond, The water trouble and bloodi off colour. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 108 Yat jt [sc. the castle] be nocht..jn our harde dry territoire, or our myry erde. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxxxi^v The Feelde where the Hooste laye was so wete and Myry, that Men, and Bestys were to greuoslye noyed. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. x. sig. V7 Onely these marishes, and myrie bogs, In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres. View more context for this quotation 1622 S. Ward Woe to Drunkards (1627) 38 Though the pit bee deepe, merie and narrow. 1684 I. Mather Ess. Illustrious Provid. (1846) 28 Being in this swamp that was miry, I slumpt in and fell down. 1750 M. Clancy Sharper 77 Have I brav'd Seas, and Storms, and Hurricanes to be at last drown'd in a small miery Ditch. 1833 T. Hood Epping Hunt lxxvii Some fell in miry bogs. 1847 J. W. Buhoup Narr. Central Division vi. 46 We were somewhat detained, in consequence of having to pass a miry piece of ground on our road. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood iv Cattle..soon turned both outfield and infield into a miry wilderness. 1997 Church Times 4 July 23/3 Those who dwelt in his and my farmsteads then would have been cursing the miry dip which separated them, and how it clung to water. b. In figurative context. ΚΠ 1602 F. Herring tr. J. Oberndorf Anatomyes True Physition 5 Ouer head and eares in the myrie puddle of grosse Ignorance. 1816 E. Payson Diary 16 Dec. in A. Cummings Mem. Rev. E. Payson (1830) xix. 364 God was pleased to..raise me up out of the horrible pit and miry clay. 1994 Guideposts Aug. 15 He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog. 2. a. Full of mud or mire; muddy. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] > mire > abounding in slag1440 miryc1443 muddyc1450 filthy1566 mire1673 sloughy1704 sleechy1792 guttery1808 slubby1823 grooty1848 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 295 (MED) He ouȝte vse þe louȝer wey, þouȝ ellis it were to hym worse wey by cause it is weet and sumwhat myiry. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 335 (MED) Þe strete þat he rade in was passand myrye. 1555 R. Eden tr. S. von Herberstein Rerum moscouiticarum commentarii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 292 The citie is very large and wyde: and also very slabby and myrie. 1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 40 As the cleere and vnmuddie water that glydeth with a quiet streame, differeth from troubled and myrie froth. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 135 Women footing it in the mierie streets. 1670 J. A. Comenius Janua Ling. Triling. 774 The broad streets themselves paved with stones, that the walks be not miry. 1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 16 Deep thro' a miry Lane she pick'd her Way. 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 188 As I went in barefooted, I found the miry stuff stick to my feet. 1833 H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. i When the days get damp and dark, and the roads miry. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) i. 80 It is even more grim and wild than you had anticipated,..in the spring everywhere wet and miry. 1913 J. Muir Story of my Boyhood ii. 59 Just after the spring thaw, the roads over the prairies were heavy and miry. 1984 B. Breytenbach Mouroir 112 In strategic places along the miry streets poles have been erected. †b. In figurative context. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adjective] > unpleasant loatha700 unsweetc890 grimlyc893 unquemeOE un-i-quemeOE evila1131 sourc1175 illc1220 unhightlyc1275 unwelcomec1325 unblithec1330 unnetc1330 unrekena1350 unagreeablec1374 uncouthc1380 unsavouryc1380 displeasantc1386 unlikinga1398 ungaina1400 crabbedc1400 unlovelyc1400 displeasing1401 eschewc1420 unsoot1420 mislikinga1425 unlikelya1425 unlustya1425 fastidiousc1425 unpleasantc1430 displicable1471 unthankfulc1475 displeasant1481 uneasy1483 unpleasinga1500 unfaring1513 badc1530 malpleasant?1533 noisome1542 thanklessa1547 ungrate1548 untoothsome1548 ungreeable1550 contrary1561 disagreeable1570 offensible1575 offensive1576 naughty1578 delightlessa1586 undelightful1585 unwisheda1586 unpleasurable1587 undelightsomec1595 dislikeful1596 disliking1596 ungrateful1596 unsweet?a1600 distastive1600 impleasing1602 distasting1603 distasteful1607 unsightly1608 undelectable1610 disgustful1611 unrelishing1611 waspisha1616 undeliciousa1618 unwished-for1617 disrelishing1631 unenjoyed1643 unjoyous1645 mirya1652 unwelcomed1651 unpleasivea1656 sweet1656 injucund1657 insuave1657 unpalatable1658 unhandsome1660 undesirable1667 disrelishablea1670 uncouthsome1684 shocking1703 nasty1705 embittering1746 indelectable1751 undelightinga1774 nice and ——1796 unenjoyablea1797 ungenial1796 uncomplacent1805 ungracious1807 bitter1810 rotten1813 uncongenial1813 quarrelsome1825 grimy1833 nice1836 unrelished1863 bloody1867 unbewitching1876 ferocious1877 displeasurable1879 rebarbative1892 charming1893 crook1898 naar1900 peppery1901 negative1902 poisonous1906 off-putting1935 unsympathetic1937 piggy1942 funky1946 umpty1948 pooey1967 minging1970 Scrooge-like1976 sucky1984 stank1991 stanky1991 a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) i. i. 11 Several steps and ascents out of this miry cave of mortality. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 301 Quickly involve in the miry sloughs of disappointment. †3. Covered or spattered with mud or mire. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > muddy fennyc897 bymodereda1307 slutchedc1400 muddyc1450 miry?c1475 slabby1542 mired1558 mudded1598 muddied1642 mucksy1665 shabby1705 sludgy1782 slushy1791 ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 81^v Myry, cenosus, cenolentus merdosus. 1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. giv [The hunter] his clothes torne wete shode all myry. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 318/2 Myerry or dirty, berayed with dyrte, boueux. a1535 J. Fisher Serm. Good Friday in Spirituall Consol. (?1578) sig. F.viij If you be ashamed for a foule myrie shoo, and not of a foule stincking soule. 1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 3 When late their miry Sides Stage-Coaches show. 1725 E. Haywood Bath-intrigues i. 8 He found himself obligd to walk to his lodgings in the most miry and piteous condition. 1864 R. A. Arnold Hist. Cotton Famine 54 Hodge comes in all miry from his work. 1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. v. 100 Riding slack..ajog homeward from the miry hunt. †4. figurative. Dirty, defiled, polluted; despicable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [adjective] blackOE rotea1382 lousyc1386 unwashed?a1390 fulsomec1390 filthy?c1400 rankc1400 leprousa1425 sicka1425 miry1532 shitten?1545 murrain1575 obscene1597 vicious1597 ketty1607 putrid1628 putredinous1641 foede1657 fulsamic1694 carrion1826 foul1842 shitty1879 scabrous1880 scummy1932 pukey1933 shitting1950 gungy1962 grungy1965 shithouse1966 grot1967 bogging1973 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 614/1 Tindall..layeth hys myrye handes vpon the knowen catholike churche of Christ. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. ii. 10 Beyond that myrie heap of earthie waters. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems 253 Miry clods of this accursed earth Whose dull suffusions make her often sown. 1877 E. Johnson Antiqua Mater 69 A name under which men drove a miry business. †5. Dirty in colour. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1850 Zoologist 8 2644 Those [sc. eggs] of the plover were somewhat discoloured, and were beginning to get what may be called miry. Compounds † miry-mouthed adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 5 Thinke you this myrie mouthed mate, a partaker of heauenly inspiration, that thus aboundes in his vncharitable railings. † miry wet adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 332 The ground..had better be dry, than mirey wet. 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