Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Spotted; having different colors.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mizzle . - verb humorous deliberate misspelling of
misled
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Examples
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Directly under and beside the staff was the legend "Don't be misled"; to Charlie, "mizzled" meant to be sort of wobbly and confused, like those lines.
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For example he had for years pronounced the word "misled" as, "mizzled." for a reason which demonstrates the clarity of his logic if nothing else: as a child he had seen on a box of English biscuits the picture of a trumpeter, from whose instrument came a staff of music with the staff drawn in wavy lines, probably to convey the idea of a fanfare in vibrato.
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It has rained or mizzled all day, as my pockets feel.
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The sun no doubt had risen, but it was a dreary lightless morning, with a rain that never entirely ceased, but dripped from trees and mizzled between the showers.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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The sun no doubt had risen, but it was a dreary lightless morning, with a rain that never entirely ceased, but dripped from trees and mizzled between the showers.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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'They have ripped it full chisel, they are off licketty-split, they have slid, they have made tracks, they have mizzled -- they have absquatulated and clipped it; _abiit, evasit, crupit_!
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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A blue bird's-eye o'er dairies fine -- as she mizzled through Temple Bar, [2]
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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It has rained or mizzled all day, as my pockets feel.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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"A man has mizzled -- run a wagon into the sea and is drifting down the race."
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892
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"The two yaller pullets have slipped you; the abigail mizzled to the funeral with your niece, and t'other dell must have smelt us, and hopped the twig."
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
slumry commented on the word mizzled
confused
July 18, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word mizzled
Sometimes spelled misled. ;)
July 18, 2007
slumry commented on the word mizzled
Or do you pronounce it miss-lead? ;)
July 18, 2007