Noun: mizzy
| Singular | mizzy |
| Plural | mizzies |
Sample Sentences
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They draggunt meh thro' wick thurns, o'er doytch-backs un thro' mizzies, […] [1819, Paul Bobbin, Sequel Lanc. Dial., page 39:]
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For miles in every direction lay the old forest of Gardomwood, a relic of primeval woodland, rich in glades and brakes, in streamlets and mizzies. [1894, R. Murray Gilchrist, Dame Inowslad:]
Nouns inflected like mizzy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English misy (“swamp, bog”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English *mȳsiġ, *mīesiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *miusiju, from Proto-Germanic *miusijō (“swamp, bog”, literally “mossy place”), from Proto-Germanic *meusą (“moss, moor”), related to Old Norse mýrr ("swamp, bog, moor"; whence English mire), Middle English mes, mease, mise, mese (“moss”), from Old English mēos (“moss”). Compare also dialectal English mizzick, mizzack, mezzack, mizuk, perhaps the same word with a suffix akin to -ock. See: Old Norse Nouns '
mýrr', English Nouns '
mire', Old English Nouns '
mēos'.