miry en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈmaɪ(ə)ɹi/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English myry, equivalent to mire + -y.
Meanings
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Resembling or characteristic of a mire; swampy, boggy.
summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […]
1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Beyond the bazaar one could see the huge, miry river."
1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mirier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| miriest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Miry Creek · miriness · mirily · unmiry
Synonyms
quaggy · mucky · swampy · boggy (like a mire) · sloughy · marshy · muddy
Translations (9)
ga draoibeach (boggy, marshy) · ga lábach (boggy, marshy) · ota باتاق (boggy, marshy) · bg блатист (boggy, marshy) · ga broghach (boggy, marshy) · ga lábánach (boggy, marshy) · de schlammig (boggy, marshy) · de sumpfig (boggy, marshy) · ga ceachrach (boggy, marshy)