Dictionary

drizzly en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English drizzle Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English drizzly From drizzle + -y.

Meanings

1. Abounding with drizzle; drizzling.
   • On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest. 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times:
   • Thursday, January 21, was a miserable, wet, drizzly day; the thaw started fairly rapidly and transport began to move again. 1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 139:

Forms

Synonyms

drippy

Translations (9)

fi tihkusateinen (abounding with drizzle; drizzling) · gl choviñento (abounding with drizzle; drizzling) · vi phùn (abounding with drizzle; drizzling) · fi tihkuinen (abounding with drizzle; drizzling) · mi hāuaua (abounding with drizzle; drizzling) · ga béalfhliuch (abounding with drizzle; drizzling) · fi vihmainen (abounding with drizzle; drizzling) · bg ръмящ (abounding with drizzle; drizzling) · id gerimis (abounding with drizzle; drizzling)