verb · intransitive · rare

mizzle

mizz·le

mizzle · mizzles · mizzled · mizzling

моросить

To rain in very fine dropsTo rain in very fine drops.

UK/ˈmɪzl/US/ˈmɪzəl/

» It was mizzling.

Es nieselte leicht.

Моросил дождь.

Meaning

4 senses

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

Examples

1 sentences

It was mizzling.
ruМоросил дождь. — marafon
deEs nieselte leicht. — Yorwba
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Translations

2 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

to rain in fine drops:

Origin

From Late Middle English misellen (“to drizzle”), cognate with Low German miseln, musseln

From Late Middle English misellen (“to drizzle”), cognate with Low German miseln, musseln (“to mizzle”), Dutch miezelen (“to drizzle, rain gently”). Of obscure origin, possibly a frequentative related to the base of mist; or, related to Middle Low German mes (“urine”), Middle Dutch mes, mis (“urine”), both from Old Saxon mehs (“urine”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstuz, *mihstaz, *mihsk- (“urine”), from *mīganą (“to urinate”), from Proto-Indo-European *meiǵʰ-, *omeiǵʰ- (“to urinate”). Compare also English micturate (“to urinate”), Old Frisian mese (“urine”), Low German miegen (“to urinate”), Dutch mijgen (“to urinate”), Danish mige (“to urinate”).

Unknown. Perhaps from Shelta mi(e)sli (“go”).

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