How does “mizzle” compare to other forms of rain?
Mizzle is a term used in Devon and Cornwall (in UK) for a combination of fine drenching drizzle or extremely fine rain and thick, heavy saturating mist or fog. While floating or falling the visible particles of coarse, watery vapor might approach the form of light rain.
According to the Oxford Dictionary, mizzle is mainly a dialect word meaning ‘light rain or drizzle’; or ‘to rain lightly’, and it comes from late Middle English.
The Free Dictionary defines mizzle as:
1– (verb) To rain in fine, mistlike droplets; drizzle.
2– (noun) A mistlike rain; a drizzle.
3– (verb, British slang) To make a sudden departure.
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5 Comments
Deborah Gabriel
I like drizzle best!
billyboy915
While some seem to think the subject matter is too "area specific", I found this to be an easy one to figure out. It's a portmanteau of mist and drizzle.
earlepg
Sounds like a combination of mist and drizzle, and that would be lighter on the rain scale.
Albeck1994
Actually Mizzle is a term used all over the UK but I agree with rkcorrigan too specific
rkcorrigan
This question is too “area specific”. As well, the explanation does not directly answer the question. If the answer is “lighter than usual”, then those exact same words should appear in the explanation.